I wasn't going to blog again for a while because I just blogged last night and tomorrow we'll be leaving for our trip. So the plan was not to blog until I got back, but I had something happen today that SCREAMED blog this!
As I mentioned on Golden's blog in a comment we have a lot of stuff we're giving to the Bible school down the road. It's furniture that I hated to just have around for the sake of having it when it wasn't getting used. The old bed the kids had, a coffee table, our old recliner, etc. You get the idea. It's furniture that we've replaced or don't have room for so why not let someone else use it?
When the men were leaving I saw through our front window our next door neighbor standing in her drive staring at them and her son in our yard doing the same thing. This didn't surprise me. This is the same neighbor who called to ask me if everything was okay when she saw (in her opinion) dash's car in our drive too much! He had some vacation time and was working from home some then too...but since we hadn't told her she was "concerned" and wanted to make sure everything was okay.
So the men get in their truck and they pull out of the drive. I am knowing that I'll hear from her, but she didn't even wait for them to make it to the stop sign! The phone rang. "T are you moving?" "No." "Is everything okay?" "Yes." "Well, are you home?" (I think to myself as I answer yes....DUH you called my house and my van is in the drive.) But I answer "yes" instead of duh. "Well, I saw a truck loaded with furniture and I'm not trying to be nosy, I just wanted to make sure you weren't getting ripped off because I didn't know them men. Not that I'll no all your friends you know what I mean?" Again I answer "yes" instead of yeah, I know you are being nosy and want to know what's up. I say to her "yeah, we are giving some stuff to the college down the road." She got what she wanted so she said "well, again I'm not trying to be nosy, I just wanted to make sure everything was okay. and that you weren't moving because we like you guys." I say "yes everything's fine." and we hang up.
When I moved out of my folks home I took one thing with me that will never leave me...I can't stand people asking me about my business. ESPECIALLY when I am not offering the info. I admit I offer a lot of info so if my neighbor had in a casual conversation when she saw me said "so I saw the truck there the other day, you going somewhere?" I probably would have said "No, we just were giving some stuff away that we aren't using anymore." But calling me 10 seconds after the truck is gone and gawking at people as they work really bugs me. This is why this neighbor and I will never be more then 'caught you at the door' friends. If we come home at the same time and she says hi or I say hi we will talk for a while. I don't mind, she's okay. But I try to let her do all the talking because she tells me the business of everyone on the block so I know that she tells them what she thinks she knows about me too. Oh well. She just is too much for me to handle in large doses.
3 comments:
I can't believe that they were blatantly gawking at the moving guys and truck. They are unbelievable.
At least you can provide her some entertainment. I might be tempted to invent scenarios that would ellicit similar reactions just to see if she'd bite on them.
Where I worked before, the neighbor lady was a widow and looked out the kitchen window at us all the time, but my boss and his wife took it in stride and invited her over for coffee. I think they lived in a fish bowl so long in a small town and a college campus they just figured you should feed the fish.
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