Televangelists preaching against television

 

This sounds both bad and sad, but we don't socialize much to be able to find like minded friends.  Here, it seems, if you're not uber-religious, you're a doper or boozer.  We keep to ourselves, mainly.  We associate with one neighbor.  We're currently saving to move closer to my family.  We are not that close with his family.

Jimbo, I'm truly blessed to have a husband that I get along so well with.  I'm also on the phone with my family quite a bit.

 

I've got some nice people within a few houses of me.  In fact, the guy who used to live two houses down (but moved 1/2 hour away) became one of my best friends.

 

 

 

The floods broke the silence that had built up between us and the people across the street.  We're not all that friendly, but we do wave and speak now.  I'm more friendly with the lady whose house got broken into, but I don't bother her much.  She has lots of family in the area, and  lots of responsibility.

 

Our old church and another church came by to help after the floods.  We had little home damage, just land and tool damage, so we politely declined. 

 

I stop and talk with a lady named Karen that I see walking her dog.  She's a nice lady.  There are nice people around here, but most keep to themselves.  Those with lots of friends are usually doing lots of drinking or drugging.  I can't be bothered with that anymore.  Hubby and I grew up.

 

We had a little codeine club in my 'hood for awhile, but those people either moved out, gone to jail, or seem to have gotten off the drugs.  Even the pothead next door has gotten off the pot since he discovered that the horrible gastric problems he'd been having for 6 years was the result of pot.  All along, he thought that the pot was providing him some relief.  Turns out that while it was providing some temporary relief, in the long run, it was doing him in.

 

Not many drinkers in my 'hood, from what I can tell.

 

Some of the nicest people on my block are the college-age kids who rent the house a few doors down.  Two males and a female.  Last year, they even checked with (and invited) the neighbors re a party they were going to have.  Turns out, there were no problems and minimal noise.