October 17, 2002
Oh my!
About a little over a year ago, this happened:
"Daughter keeps her mother's body"
We heard about it, were a little weirded out by it, and knew it had all happened somewhere near us.
I just now ran outside to get my car and ran into our neighbor Carl on the street. He was looking at the remains of the fire and I stopped to talk with him. We stood there wondering what the cause could have been and he mentioned that the garage had looked a little trashy and maybe they would fix it up now. I pointed to the house behind us and said something like, "and what about this place?" The house is unkempt. There are two old cars with completely flat tires and weeds growing around them. The front windows have that black window shade stuff in them so you can't see in, but they can see out, which makes you not want to look at the house for fear someone on the inside is looking out. Carl said something about worrying about "her" and I asked him what he meant. I live on the same little street as the lady that had her dead mom in her house for six years! How freaky is that! I had just talked about it last night at work, which is even more strange. It came to mind for some reason and I asked if anyone had remembered it. So very weird. I have seen her sitting out on her front porch, listening to talk radio a few times and wondered about her, but I had no idea that she was that lady. So Carl filled me in and now I am a little freaked out about all of it. Very, very strange stuff.