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What a town of nosey, paranoid people!

posted 10 years ago by Waigon
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I couldn't get over how annoyingly nosey everybody was!
"Oh Henry you're using a razor for yourself?"
"Where are you going? What are you doing? You're walking home? Let me drive you. I SAID... I'm going to drive you. Hop in the damn car bud, I'm going to give you a lift home and sniff around your property and be suspicious for no apparent reason."
"Shouldn't your son be at school in a few minutes?"
"You have a dentist appointment on the first day of school? That's totally unusual."
"Hi I'm just going to barge in Adele with a casserole, never mind knocking or anything, I will just literally burst through the front door like crazy."

I guess the story needed some suspense. But seriously? No wonder Adele is afraid to leave her house, the bloody world is out to get her!

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[–] Morgana0 10 years ago

Lol. I agree. I thought everyone was really strange in their nosiness, especially the cop! I thought for sure he knew Frank was in the house but it seems he was just a weird cop!

[–] JaxArcher 10 years ago

RIGHT! I kept thinking to myself "Argh, none of your business, townspeople!" haha

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[–] PeteyEsco 9 years ago

I said the same exact thing as I watched it. Even yelled it out a few times!

[–] ithinkimdeck 10 years ago

Small town America is f!cking weird. These people are bored so they have alot of time to think about other people and their business. Truthfully, Adele withdrawing that much money was probably the most exciting thing that has ever happened there in 20 years.

I know! No wonder her body would shake. Everyone in the town was weird as hell.

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[–] VidaBoheme 10 years ago

For real OP, that is exactly what I thought when watching the movie too. I wanted Adele to be a little more assertive with people. It all was just too pushy. Why was it a big deal that a kid was walking down the street in the morning, that a policeman would need to give him a ride home? Why would a bank grill a customer for taking out their own money? And if people just barged into my house and demanded that I babysat for them....that b!tch would have been out on her ass (especially after slapping the poor child)!

[–] Yorick_Brown 10 years ago

Why was it a big deal that a kid was walking down the street in the morning, that a policeman would need to give him a ride home?

It was a minor early in the morning and he was a cop.

Why would a bank grill a customer for taking out their own money?

It was a very large withdrawal although the supervisor should have quit earlier on.

And if people just barged into my house and demanded that I babysat for them....that b!tch would have been out on her ass (especially after slapping the poor child)!

Demanded? She was PLEADING with her neighbor to take care of her physically retarded son while she attended her sick father, hours away at the hospital.

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[–] Waigon 10 years ago

I live in the country, but I'm Australian so it must be a US thing for a cop to be suspicious like that of a child. Each to their own though! But I would be horrified for my kid if a cop had picked him up, truant or not! Bahaha.

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[–] MTulliver 9 years ago

Pleading? No, she basically TOLD her she was going to do it. Stupid neighbor.

[–] Yorick_Brown 9 years ago

That's really mean and judgmental of you to say about a desperate woman single-handedly raising a physically disabled child.

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[–] tagheuer25 7 years ago

Yeah she wasn't pleading. Neighbor actually said she had no choice so in essence adele had no choice too. Adele isn't very assertive. She could have just lied and said she need to go somewhere so she just couldn't. She could have also been more assertive when she was withdrawing her OWN money. "I really don't need to explain squat to you. I'm withdrawing my own money. I didn't know it's illegal to do that or is it? Do I really need a lawyer for this?" Something like that.

[–] ktowny 8 years ago

"if people just barged into my house ..."

In small towns, its quite common for a neighbor to open the door and announce themselves. Its not barging in. In that particular case, it sounded like her dad had a serious medical situation and she had no where else to turn to leave her disabled son, thus was desperate.

In the city, people rarely know their neighbors, let alone inviting them in their houses, so I can see how some people don't understand that situation.

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[–] dayvit78 10 years ago

I agree with your comment for most of the townpeople - but that's just small town life, where everybody knows everybody's names (and business and ...)

However, the one I don't think was too nosy was the cop.

1) A school age boy walking alone on the street, when every other kid is at school. The cop had a duty to make sure his parents knew that he was not being truant.

2) Once he got back to the house, he saw the car all loaded, but the mom denied going anywhere. That was sure an awful lot of stuff to be selling.. the cop played along. Actually I thought he was suspicious, but in the end, he didn't do anything. If he had followed his instinct, he should have stuck around.

And remember the killer was on the loose! Escaped just 3 days before... it's not like it was several months after.

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[–] Yorick_Brown 10 years ago

It was a small town where everybody knew everybody.

I'm guessing you're a city guy, like I am.

"Hi I'm just going to barge in Adele with a casserole, never mind knocking or anything, I will just literally burst through the front door like crazy."

This example is a weak one because the front door was open and she did call Adele's name out when she was bringing over a meal for a mentally sick woman and her young son.

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[–] ezzy666 10 years ago

In some small towns people will know you farted before you do.

If people really minded when people walked into their homes then they would lock their doors. I used to babysit in a town like that and was told I didn't have to lock the door when I took the baby out for a walk. I still locked it. The first time I took the baby for a walk people stopped to talk and a few mentioned they had no idea the Smiths had hired a new babysitter. The next time I went everybody knew my name and it felt like they knew more about me than I did.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

[–] Amy-93-155144 9 years ago

No kidding!! I found that to be so annoying. I'd stay home too!