<< just a couple of things >>
2004-03-22 - 12:59 p.m.

1. We were driving down one of those rural/suburban roads that are so plentiful on the islands around here, and we both saw a jogger flip open a mailbox cover as he ran past it. The mailbox was bursting full, and it seemed to me that there was something malicious about exposing the mail to the elements, as if the jogger had decided to do a small mean thing for no reason. It bothered me. �Why do you think he did that?�

He said, �I�ll tell you exactly why he did it. He runs this stretch of road every day. He�s been running it for years, and he knows the people who live in that house, and so every day when he runs past their mailbox he flips up the lid so that his wife will see it on her way home from work and know where he is, and that he�ll be home soon. That�s the reason why.�

And it was.

2. Later that evening, we were walking down a more urban street, past an assisted living facility, and I caught the eye of an old woman with a walker, who was walking in the other direction. I smiled at her, and she smiled back and said, �My, you two are such a good-looking couple!�

When we talked about it afterwards, he said, �And she knows from cute couples. She�s seen USO couples, decades' worth of couples. We�re cute.�



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