This is totally not kid-related and so should probably go over at Side Dishes…but I’m putting it here anyway.
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I woke up this morning to my phone ringing. It was my DH. This is normal. The girls and I sleep until 9:30ish around the time my DH calls. While I’m on the phone with him I hear a diesel engine outside. Several of my neighbors have diesels, and at least one of them ahs a friend that drives a bigrig…so out of curiosity I try to look outside to see what it is with little succeess. Whatever it is is right out of sight. I hang up with DH and head out to my living room.
Outside my window I see the neighbors Fire Vehicle (He drives one of the SUV’s he’s like a step down from the captain…he’s also a prick) – wouldn’t be out of norm, but his lights are flashing. No sirens. I move further into the room and see a plain white van. Further into the room and there’s the other Fire Dept SUV. FURTHER into the room and I see the source of the diesel engine…the Fire Dept. ambulance.
Now, if my neighbor wasn’t such a prick at this point I would walk away and just ask him later WTH was going on…but he’s not so I get super curious. I call DH and ask why they’d have a plain white van (no windows). I watch out the window. I suspect that the neighbor has died because she was elderly. There are no ‘crime scene’ people there that I can tell…but there is one guy in a black coat wandering around, putting laundry baskets of stuff in a nearby car.
Then the neighbors granddaughter comes out of the house. She goes there all the time to do her laundry. A few minutes later the granddaughters boyfriend comes out, too.
ANOTHER white van pulls up with really darkened windows…two men in suits get out – at which point I’m pretty sure the neighbor is deceased – one of them men spits in my yard…thanks so much :P.
It takes another full 5 minutes, but then a gurney is taken out of the newest arrival and into the house. One of the men pops out a few minutes with gloves on his hand…then the granddaughter appears again with food from the fridge (cleaning it out?). Another few minutes go by and the gurney is brought back out. Fully covered with a blanket. PUt in the back of the van. The Fire Dept vehicles pull away. The guy with the black coat has pulled his black SUV into the yard by now and reappears a few minutes later with a dog carrier containing Norma’s Min-Pin….
My neighbor passed away last night! I just saw her outside last week!! She was just blowing leaves by herself two weeks ago! Very strange. I didn’t know her well, but she was nice enough. And what an odd way to start my day…I feel very discombobulated now….
That would seriously freak me out. At least your neighbour was independent and active right up to the end. Still very sad though.