I have a weird situation and I may be utterly misinterpreting things. We have a housemate who shares the rent and who we rarely see because she's a World of Warcraft addict. Still, in a house with one bathroom, you're going to run into each other. When we all moved in together, we were negotiating casual wear, ie, skin comfort levels. In my own home, I'm a nudist, which I confine to our bedroom, though I can be lackadaisical about cinching up my bathroom tight when I head down the hall. That's more from "odds are she's asleep or busy" than from any efforts at flashing anyone.
Anyway, Hubby said, at the negotiating stage, "I'll make sure Connie puts her bathrobe on more often, she's got a bad tendency to go topless in the house." And housemate shrugged and said, "I don't care."
Which made me blink. I've never been completely topless around her. I've occasionally gone out with just my shorts and my bra, but the bras I wear are sports bras which conceal more than most swimsuit tops.
Anyway, I've currently got a bad bug bite on my leg. I saw housemate in passing in the hall and she said, "Gosh, what happened to your leg!" OK, polite conversation, you'd expect it among housemates. But the only way she could have noticed it in the space of time we were passing would be if she was, well, looking me over. She's commented before on a bruise or something that she would only have noticed if she was actually scanning me.
Am I weird for not paying more attention to the people I'm around? I know I can be very stand-offish in incidental interactions. Is my housemate's level of awareness of me more typical in people's experience than my ignorance even of her eye color?
