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Sadly, Being Good Neighbors Is Ending
because: cameras
Recently, when walking my dog, I saw a bicycle lying where it could easily be run over by a car — and I thought to myself:
“I am not about to move that bike to safety because all the neighbors back here have their cameras on and the next thing is I will be posted on what I call the Chicken Little site with the poster saying this person is about to steal the bike.”
1- I often, very often, do long run-on sentences when I talk to myself
2 - Chicken Little refers to my area’s popular “neighborhood site” as all posts are “OMG the sky is falling”
Instead of moving the bike, I left it where it was, continued the dog walk, and thought about how these cameras stopped me from being a good Samaritan — because in prior years I would have moved that bike to safety.
I also no longer look into neighbor's cars to see if they left stuff in it and should be warned to remove. [We do have car break-ins.] But I’ve also been told, “it’s ok — we have cameras.”
I just ignore all this now because the neighborhood is so filled with cameras and neighbors…
