Bad Manners and Brimstone

About 25 years ago, my brother sent me a birthday card with a Star Trek theme.  Lieutenant Worf is shown in a fierce Klingon stance with his arms folded and the caption is, “Old age is approaching.”   Open up the card and the caption is “And apparently YOU have decided not to fight”.

We sent that card back and forth to each other until it was falling apart and there was no space left to write anything on it.  There was no particular reason for doing this other than my family will beat a joke to death just to beat a joke to death. 

Quote from: oogyda on January 05, 2021, 02:08:37 pm

I've been known to give the same birthday card to the same person up to 3 times.

My Mom gives the same birthday card to my brother every year. She just writes in the year in the list of years already written in it, and after he opens it, he gives it back to her. They've been doing this for decades.

We moved into a villa this year and I am wondering if there are new etiquette rules to be followed when you move to closer quarters than you are accustomed to.

Our kitchen window and the kitchen window of the villa next to us are about 25 feet apart.  We met the neighbor, she's a widow, she's very nice but a known recluse.  If you see her outside, she will talk your ear off but that is very, very rare.  The pandemic has made encounters even rarer for neighbors on both sides. 

My question:  if I'm in my kitchen and doing stuff at the kitchen sink and I see her in her kitchen at her kitchen sink, do I acknowledge her with a wave and a smile or do I pretend that I don't see her?  Kind of a boundaries and privacy question.  I really am not sure what to do.