I accidentally joined a neighborhood watch group chat and now I’m in too deep

It started a few weeks ago when I scanned a QR code in the lobby. I thought it was just for simple building updates like when the elevators are down or when they do fire inspections. I didn’t think much of it. Turns out it was a group chat for the neighborhood watch. At first I just read along. People were posting blurry photos of cars they didn’t recognize. Someone asked if anyone else heard a weird sound at three in the morning. It felt harmless and kind of funny. I didn’t really write anything. I just watched. Then it started to get intense. One night someone wrote that they saw suspicious activity near the west entrance and suddenly there were twenty people replying with theories and long messages. Someone uploaded a zoomed in photo of a guy walking his dog and someone else joked that he was probably up to something. I was about to comment that it was Greg from 4B but before I could even type someone had already written out an entire step by step plan on how to casually bump into him lmao. They are now assigning shifts. Actual shifts. I woke up to five messages tagging me by name asking if I could cover the west entrance on Thursday night. I was like wtf i don’t even know what covering the west entrance means. Am I supposed to sit outside in the dark and watch for strangers or some shit? I opened the chat again later trying to write something polite about how I only joined for basic updates and I’m not really a night watch kind of person. While I was staring at my phone trying to think of what to say I did some work on the laptop just to distract myself for a minute and then someone in the groupchat sent a map with red circles on it like they were planning some sort of operation. Now I feel stuck because if I leave the chat it might look like I was never actually interested in helping and I don’t want to seem rude. So I’m just sitting here pretending to be part of this whole thing and hoping they forget about me before Thursday.

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