I went out to get my mail yesterday evening and I caught the neighbor waxing his car. He’s really chatty so I often avoid going outside when he’s out there because he will keep me there for like 45 minutes and I will always not understand like 25% of what he says.

But this time his elusive wife emerged. I think she is higher on the Cryptid scale than I am, because I’ve lived here like for fucking years and I’ve never seen her until yesterday.

Which makes her reaction all the more incredible to me, she said, “ do you need anything?”

And I legitimately blanked like my brain just did a blue screen and I stared at her.

And she said, “ you know, toilet paper or something. We just had hamburgers do you want one?”

And I said “holy shit I would love a hamburger” with absolutely no hesitation

She went back into the house and disappeared and I kept talking to her husband for a while and just when I thought she had gone in and was never coming back she came out with like three plates of food covered in aluminum foil and said “I washed my hands right before I came out here and I didn’t touch the door I also gave you some potato salad and some fruit and a couple other things just in case”

I was so overwhelmed but how incredibly kind it was especially for how little they see me and that I don’t remember his name and have never seen her in person before.

I also walked back up to my apartment when we were done talking and realized I was standing there with a t-shirt that read PORTLAND FUCKING OREGON in full view while they told me how much we all need to be there for each other and then absolutely did that

So that was super cool and now I’m going to eat a cheeseburger

I don’t think I’ve ever had a neighbor be nice to me before