workings jammed. The cow pie had rendered my mower useless. I tried hosing it off and scraping at it with a stick, but the cow pie was like adhesive. Luckily my dear, old neighbor took pity on me and waddled across my yard to look at the mower for me.
He instructed me that the mower needed to be taken apart and cleaned, then re-assembled. He then trundled back across to his yard, where he sat in his lawn chair, on his perfectly manicured, inch high grass. I was secretly hoping that he would offer to do this un-pleasant task for me, but I found quickly that chivalry is indeed dead. At least when it comes to pressure washing cow poo off your mower.
Like I said before, the property I purchased was in a small town. The kind of town that has one red light and gossip gets around faster than local transit. Being the "new comer" in town, I received the same round of questions from the locals everywhere I went. "Where you from?", "Who're you related to?", "Who are/were you married to?" and so on .
Being divorced with two children, I felt like I could not answer these questions properly without completely giving my interrogator a full rundown of my personal life from the past two years. But I quickly found out by the blank stare looking back at me that I needed to condense my answer into something a little more "user friendly". I toyed around with answers like "I was hatched and recently dropped out of the sky with no prior personal attachments".
But I realized that when you live in a small community, friends and family are very important. In the old days they were essential to your very survival. So I began to understand the need to get to know me was more than mere curiosity. I saw it as the beginning of acceptance into the community.
I can honestly say after living in my town for thirtheen years, I have not completely blended in. And I don't really have the desire to, every town needs an odd ball, and I've settled in to that role quite comfortably.
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