Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by irrational on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:55PM
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You would love my next door neighbors. They moved in the same week we did 2 years ago. We saw them when they first drove up and enters their garage (middle age couple). Since then, nobody has ever seen them. They never have lights on in their house at night. They never answer their door. They never open their garage and drive away. They never have packages or anything else delivered. They only way we know they are still alive is their trash bins go out and are taken back in every week (though nobody has ever seen them do it) and in the winter you can see the white smoke/condensation from their utility vents.
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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by uninformed on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:04PM
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Where does the trash come from?
Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by GuardianCaveman on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:50PM
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Brought in through underground tunnels .
Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by irrational on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:49AM
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We assume they are leaving in the dead of night and grocery shopping at one of the 24 hour grocery stores. Maybe they have packages delivered somewhere they can pick them up in the dead of night. There is always someone around during the day, so for sure somebody would have seen them come or go if they were doing so during the day in the past 2 years. Our conjecture is either they are vampires (which is unlikely since it was daytime when they first arrived) or they are in the witness protection program.
I just remembered another detail. They have grass in their front yard. It is cut, but a service has never come by and cut it and, of course, we’ve never seen them cut it. But we don’t hear any sounds in the dead of night of it being cut and it doesn’t look like it was cut with a scythe. Frankly, it’s a mystery.