Drabble by Kevin Fagan for March 22, 2016

What’s sort of funny. People usually like to seat in teh same seats for everything. So, quite often, groups are friendly with each other, but don’t always know (or just don’t remember names. Thus it’s the lady who sits there, the guy who usually wears a blue shirt, etc.

He knows Steinbauer by name. Probably that’s why he doesn’t want to get to know anyone else.

We lived in our condo for 18 yrs and I knew several people in our building fairly well. My husband was like Ralph – hek new people in the other buildings on our street like that. There was the guy who had a red car, the old guy, the bald guy with a cane. Names? Nope, not a single one.

Ralph is doing better than me. At least he knows Steinbauer. I don’t know the names of any of my neighbors. There is only one that I would know if I saw him at the store. The rest? I have no idea about. And I’ve been living here for 38 years. I do live out in the open. I bought two acres back in 1985 and had my house built. That one neighbor is my limit! Some people don’t realize that some of us don’t want to get to know people.

When I first moved in, there were a few people that I knew. But as the kids got older and those neighbors moved away I didn’t bother with it and apparently, neither did the new people that moved in. In the whole 38 years, I’ve never had a kid come by on Halloween. Not once! My two kids are now 47 and 50. I’m 76 and don’t feel like getting to know anyone!