Reply #11: I've lived in my neighborhood... [View All]

[samplegirl]

Eleven years. I was just telling my girlfriend she was with me in the car that after 11 years the neighbor three doors up on the same side of the street as me has never waved or spoke a word to me ever. Not even in passing coming or going. The two neighbors directly across are nice both families have young children so they kinda buddy with each other but they are democrats and always comment on my flags bumper stickers and converse with me about the Home Schooling hypocrites who live beside me and also the next door up. I live in an upscale kinda yuppie neighborhood and when I moved here it was for the school system as my daughter was in high school. People are so much different now a day. Growing up neighbors were truly people who you could count on for just about anything. When you grew up in a middle class neighborhood everyone just seemed to connect and help one another out. I'm sure I didn't score to many points when I campaigned for Kerry...but now I'm sure many of doors I knocked at wish they would of heeded my words. It's really very hard to live among such a strange breed of people. Sometimes I feel out of place here and have never really felt at home and other times I feel like I have as much right to live here as they do if not more. The one neighbor worked for Halliburton and
started his own oil business and is a millionaire. He's not in your face with it very private but secretly I know what he's thinking about me. Anyway...one thing certain I am still myself and never put myself ahead of any human being and more important I never forgot where I came from, how I was raised,
how my parents struggled to make my life a little better and
indeed the person I am today because of it.