Leaving...
May. 27th, 2005 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grumOne of our neighbors is moving. I've been in this neighborhood for about six years now, but didn't really know them very well at all - just waves and nods, mostly.
So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."
I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it.
"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before."
The original article is available at http://www.justicefornone.com/handbills/leaving1.htm
It is a bit longer, but UncleDark's LJ had a cut for more at this point and I found it much more effective to be left at this point to stew for a bit before moving on. So, since I don't know how to do an LJ cut, I'm just posting the link and y'all can follow it if you like.
I want to go home.
Honey, your home doesn't exist any more, people aren't nice.
So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."
I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it.
"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before."
The original article is available at http://www.justicefornone.com/handbills/leaving1.htm
It is a bit longer, but UncleDark's LJ had a cut for more at this point and I found it much more effective to be left at this point to stew for a bit before moving on. So, since I don't know how to do an LJ cut, I'm just posting the link and y'all can follow it if you like.
I want to go home.
Honey, your home doesn't exist any more, people aren't nice.
