oh god

Background: M's & my new place (I've NEVER learned how to properly write or say compound posessives like that) is on a nice, quiet sidestreet off a main road. It's basically the perfect location. We're facing a row of houses with a big, beautiful golf course behind them, we're a 2-second walk to the bus stop at the corner of our street, there are two mailboxes within a one-minute walk, and we're basically right in the middle of everything but just off to the side of it. It's quiet around here. All of our neighbors have young families (mostly kids under 6 or 7, from what I can see, but mostly young babies), are older, or are young kids in their 20's who are renting but for the most part keep the noise down.

So I hear this abrasive Boston accent talk/yelling man outside (if you're from the area, you know exactly what I mean... that nasally "rrrraaawwwwhhhhhh" sounding person who talks loudly and harshly and you can't tell if he or she is angry or not). And, of course, I sit next to the window so I can figure out what he's saying. It's this guy probably in his mid-to-late 50's yelling at someone that she is leaving already, and she'll be back in half an hour but FINE, JUST GO THEN but wait and see, you'll be back! and then loudly and indignantly hedge-trimming between outbursts. I figure it's his wife, but then I figure it's his maybe college-age daughter who stopped in for laundry or something. Then I hear two women talking on the porch, and I see a way older woman with a cane hobbling down the stairs with a young blonde woman following her. Turns out the guys' yelling at his MOTHER, who has some appointment but then she wants to stay there for 3 hours, or something, when he thinks she should go and come back and then go elsewhere afterwards, I don't know. But he yelled at her, and then he was all "COME ON, give me a hug" and she swung her cane at him and told him "shhhhhuuuuuuuUUTTTTT UP!"

I nearly burst out laughing, but they definitely would have seen me and it would have been a bit embarrassing... especially since I was sitting next to an open window half-dressed with my hair wrapped in a towel. LOL

God, people are awesome. I just wish more of them came down my street and did amusing things.