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April 19, 2005
Where the sun sometimes shine...
Apart from Mumm-Wraath, we really do have relatively good neighbours.
When we first moved in to our current apartment, some of them stopped by and said hi, and gave some warm words of welcome. I wouldn't have expected this in this city. And we still exchange pleasantries in the morning in the corridor, or in the elevator. We had one immediate neighbour in our previous apartment and I had only seen her once - getting out of the elevator, looking down, walking hurriedly into her apartment, closing the door and bolting the sixtytwo hundred locks on her door. During our stay in another building, we had neighbours who complained when we cook, and who think the world of their dogs, so much so that they think they can let them walk around the building without a leash and let them jump on everybody else.
Anyway, I think it was a couple of weekends ago when we met one of our neighbours who wasn't staying in the same floor as us. N and I had just finished bringing the children to the park when we met this pleasant old man coming out of the elevator in the lobby.
Old Man: Good afternoon! It's a nice day outside....
N: Afternoon. Yes it is.
Old Man: Oh look at them (pointing at Azmina and Farizah)... What are they?
N: Huh?
Me: Eh? Excuse me?
Old Man: What are they? I have one grandchild adopted from China. He's Chinese and he grew up to be a beautiful boy. Are they Chinese too?
N: Eh?
Me: Erm, they're Asian actually.
Old Man: Oh, I see!!! I just want to tell you that they are going to grow up to be beautiful children.
N: Oh-ho-ho, thank you.
Me: Yeah thanks.
We get in the elevator. Door closes.
N and I: (thinking) Did we just moved to a place under a rock?
Posted by quickness at April 19, 2005 11:10 PM
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