Neighbours

People who live within a hundred metres of each other and have never had a real conversation.

74 questions
  1. When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
  2. When did you last talk out loud to an animal in the street?
  3. When did you last take a photo of the sky, and where were you?
  4. When did you last get lost, and who did you ask for directions?
  5. When did you last apologise out loud to a piece of furniture?
  6. When did you last argue out loud with a machine?
  7. When did you last hold a door open far too long?
  8. When did you last take the long way home on purpose?
  9. When did you last stop walking to look up at a building?
  10. When did you last hear your neighbours through a wall or floor?
  11. When did you last knock on a door in your own street?
  12. When did you last smell something in the street that stopped you?
  13. When did you last eat a meal standing up, and what was it?
  14. When did you last speak first to someone in a lift?
  15. When did you last get up to check a noise at night?
  16. When did you last drop something in public, and who picked it up?
  17. When did you last take a shortcut that took longer?
  18. When did you last feed an animal that was not yours?
  19. When did you last cross the road to avoid something?
  20. What do you carry in your bag every day and never use?
  21. What rule in your house would look ridiculous to a visitor?
  22. What do people thank you for doing that you hate doing?
  23. What have you kept broken for months because you will fix it someday?
  24. What place on your street do you praise and never visit?
  25. What do you refuse to carry, even when the forecast says you need it?
  26. What do you check twice at night although you know it is fine?
  27. What corner of your home stays spotless while the rest collapses?
  28. What do you hide before someone comes over?
  29. What do you keep buying even though it dies within a month?
  30. What do you own that only works if you hit it?
  31. What do you volunteer to do at parties that you do not enjoy?
  32. What do you say you will do at the weekend and never do?
  33. What ugly thing in your street would you protest to protect?
  34. What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
  35. What do you know how to fix that most people would throw away?
  36. What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
  37. How exactly do you make your coffee or tea in the morning?
  38. What can you identify by sound alone?
  39. What smell do you notice that nobody else in the room does?
  40. What word does your family use that nobody outside would understand?
  41. What game do you know the real rules to?
  42. What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
  43. What do you know about your street that nobody walking through would notice?
  44. What's the right way to end a phone call?
  45. What do you notice first when you walk into someone's home?
  46. How do you decide which queue to join at the supermarket?
  47. What could you draw from memory better than anyone here?
  48. Which chore do you enjoy, and what's your method?
  49. What does everyone do wrong that you know the right way to do?
  50. Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
  51. Guess what the person on your left eats for breakfast, and why.
  52. Just by looking at me, guess the chore I never do. Why that one?
  53. Do I seem like someone who keeps every receipt? Why or why not?
  54. Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
  55. Do I seem like someone who talks to animals? Why or why not?
  56. Guess what's in my bag that shouldn't be there. Why that?
  57. Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
  58. Do I seem like someone who reads the last page first? Why or why not?
  59. Guess how the person on your right spends a free Sunday morning, and why.
  60. Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
  61. Do I seem like someone who names their houseplants? Why or why not?
  62. Guess what I would order in a restaurant I've never been to. Why?
  63. Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
  64. Do I seem like someone who reads the comments? Why or why not?
  65. Guess who here has a collection nobody knows about. Why them?
  66. When did you last fix something at home with the wrong tool?
  67. When did you last kill a houseplant?
  68. What do you refuse to lend, and who ruined it for everyone?
  69. What do you spot on a walk that nobody with you sees?
  70. What's a stain or a mess you know exactly how to get out?
  71. What have you repaired at home using nothing but a video?
  72. What do you complain about weekly and would miss immediately?
  73. Which part of this city do you know better than the map does?
  74. When did you last knock on a stranger's door?