[lazypucker]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

No joke. We've lived in our house for about 4 years now. Next door is a Chinese family. The guy drives to and from work, mows his lawn, shovels his sidewalk, but he looks surly at all times, and he has never returned a "hello" to me (I gave up after the first 10 or so attempts). There's a teenage son, also surly, goes to and from university (presumably) with his headphones on. In all that time, I've never seen a wife, but my wife has claimed to have seen her once a couple years ago.

Of course, there may not be a wife there at all. But all the curtains in the house are permanently pulled (I don't mean occasionally they're open; they've never been touched in years) and their balcony door has never been opened in all that time tends to increase my (overactive) suspicions that something dodgy happens behind those doors.

That's normal for a Chinese family...