The outsider neighbor woman, part 1

'That man is not a good thing, 'is whispered. I've never really tried to care about it, I'm not an overly social type myself. People must have their reservations about me, too. But as bad as her? Yes, she is indeed an outsider.

Here in our village people like to peek into the neighbors, but she always has her curtains closed. Here in our village, not everyone is dressed according to the latest fashion whims, but they are all here at the time; they are not. She wears garments from the year zero. And while here in our village people always greet each other, it costs nothing to say goodbye in passing, she greets no one. Really never. That's how she makes herself a parasite. No one from the street wants to have anything to do with her. Actually pathetic; but out of self-protection I still join the pack.

To my great fright, I found an envelope in my mailbox this morning with a short note and a key. The sender was the untracing human. She asked me in the scribble if I wanted to watch her house for two weeks, take care of her cat and put her mail on the table in the kitchen. She wrote that she had read on facebook that I was not going on vacation myself this year and she didn't know anyone else that she could ask for something so intimate. Well, yeah, say. I almost rolled over with amazement. Indeed, I had written on facebook that I would not leave this year, but I was always assuming that my status messages were not visible to everyone. Fucking facebook, too. Well, it's no different. Better pay attention in the future. Until now, I did not know about the existence of a cat and frankly do not think that she will get a lot of mail. Because when I keep an eye on one person, it is the mailman; I don't lose sight of the hot thing when he comes to shove something in my house. I'd never seen him put anything on the bus before. But most of all I'm so excited about: that's not how you ask me, in a note? Then you come to the door personally.

Until two weeks, it says in the last line. So she has already left and is now putting me in front of a fait accompli. I'm done nicely with that. I'm stuck with someone no other person wants to deal with.