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Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 11:18 AM by youthere
Okay, bear with me on this...I'm not the most eloquent speaker.
I live in the country on a moderately busy gravel road. I know all my neighbors (neighbors being defined as anyone who lives within a mile and half of me) and they are all pretty nice people... with the exception of one lady who lives 1/2 mile south of me. She's one of those batshit crazy fundies who has homeschooled her son for years out of the BIBLE because "It's the only book he really needs". Now it's no secret in our little slice of the woods that my husband and I are Democrats. All our vehicles sport Democratic bumper stickers and slogans, each election year our yard is full of signs to support the Dem candidates (with the exception of our county sheriff this year-running as a Republican, but a very good man and a hell of a sheriff), and it's no secret she's a Republican for the same reasons. She also keeps a huge hand lettered plywood board by her driveway that says "Abortion..an Abomination unto the LORD".
Even with all of that, my husband and I try hard to be civil to her...it's a small town and we believe that (for the most part) neighbors need to be decent to one another. I've had plenty of WTF? conversations with this woman, and a few near blow-outs. (She told me a couple years ago that she couldn't believe how clean our house was because Democrats are usually such dirty people- I know-WTF?) Several weeks ago she stopped by to see if she could have some of the extra apples from our trees. We had already gotten all we wanted and had been picking up the fallen ones to give to the chickens and the calves-so I said "Of course!" So I got a couple five gallon buckets and the apple picker and we went out to get apples for her.
As we were picking we were chatting away. It's been a rough year for her. Her husband filed for divorce earlier in the year (I knew this) because he found a new girlfriend, and she's had to pick up a couple part time jobs to support her and her son because her ex doesn't want to pay child support. So that leads us into a whole conversation on the economy and how times are getting tight. She then gets on this tangent about how anyone who isn't making it is either A. Lazy B. Doesn't know how to manage their money or C. Both. Since this was one of the "nicer" visits I've had with her, I jsut let it drop and changed the subject. I asked her how the homeschooling was going and she told me she had enrolled her son in the public school in the next town over because she didn't have time to school him any more because of her jobs, and she was furious because the school wanted to put him in "special" classes because the kid can barely function at a second grade level (he's in fifth) and she refuses to let them do it. I just sighed and let her carry on.
I haven't spoken to her since that day (I'm not avoiding her or anything..I just haven't seen her), and then yesterday, about 3:00 I get THE CALL. It's from a finance company looking for her. They wanted a phone number to reach her and a bunch of other personal information about her. The woman was extremely rude on the phone. I didn't give them any info but it made me kind of chuckle. THEN I'm visiting last night at my OTHER neighbors who live slightly south of her and I told them about the call I'd gotten and they said "Oh yeah! They've been calling us too. In fact, the wrecker was there the other day..they want to repo her JEEP, but she's got it hidden way out back in some tall weeds. " So I'm dying to ask this woman..."Are you lazy? Or do you just not know how to manage your money? Maybe it's BOTH?"
On Edit: And what I REALLY want to know..will she still vote for McCain?
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