Some anecdotes

From yours truly as well as one of this blog's readers.

Mine: "Imagine this!! So, the neighbors on both sides of us are moving/have moved already, and anyways, the ones that were still left are currently in the process of moving this weekend. This is the neighbor who we gossip about and think is having a midlife crisis, by the way. Anyways, he came over just a few minutes ago because he needed to borrow a broom since he didn't have one or it had already been packed up. So he rang the doorbell and asked for a broom and my mother went to the garage to get it, and then I stood around while he and her talked a little bit about selling things you don't need anymore and which moving company to use. But get this! It's something else - he sort of talks like Peter Sarsgaard! I would say they have similar-ish voices, but his is maybe a little more lively than Peter Sarsgaard's. !!!!!! My only regret is that I never really spoke to him in the past that much. He's a very talkative person though. It's really too bad I only found out that he talks sort of like Peter Sarsgaard on the day he's moving! I blame my mother and how she criticized him for the various things he did/bought that she thinks are indicative of him having a midlife crisis and being unethical and impulsive. 

Alas!!" 

Reader submission: "Something interesting happened to me yesterday that I forgot to mention. I was shopping for more CD's at Goodwill and a man who was probably 40 or so was standing next to me looking at the DVDs. He started talking about Stephen King movies and, since there was nobody else nearby, it turns out he was talking to me. I didn't want to be rude, but I haven't really seen too many Stephen King movies so I just talked about Misery a little bit. Anyways, he ends up mentioning that he's homeless, which is fine, but I honestly have no idea how to respond to that. Saying something like sorry would be kind of patronizing, but just not saying anything about it is a little bit rude as well, right? Anyways... at this point I'm not really sure what to say. Then, all of a sudden, he starts talking about how he's been saved and said 'there's a heaven and there is a hell and you need to get saved so you end up in the right place.' He goes on to talk about how you have to be careful which church you choose because there are 7 bad ones. Now I really didn't know what to say. That's pretty interesting though, right?" 

If any other readers have interesting anecdotes they'd like to submit, I'm open to that possibility.