Thursday, January 8, 2009

Donuts Through the WIndow

I had totally forgotten about this until my sister, Chrissy, reminded me. We used to live in an older home where my mother and her sisters actually grew up. We were fortunate enough to become close with our next door neighbors for a while. The way our houses were situated, the back of our house was about 10 feet from their driveway. We had two side yards, a front yard, and the backyard was basically their driveway.
Luke is my oldest at 15. He has always had his own room and it had a window that faced the back of the house. So his window always faced the neighbor's house and driveway. Without his parents knowing, he would open his window and sometimes even crawl out of it and run around outside. It being an older house without a basement, the window was pretty low to the ground so this wasn't a real concern.
One day, probably a Saturday or Sunday, my husband and I were in the living room relaxing. Luke comes into the room with a dirty mouth and half a donut in his hand. Our first thought was that the last time we bought donuts Luke hid one in his room and just found it. So we jumped up to take it away from him. He wouldn't let us have it and when asked where he got it he told us he got it from the window.
Huh? He got a donut from the window?! So we went to his room and looked out and saw nothing. There was no one out there. We thought it was strange and took the donut from him and put it on the counter.
Later in the day he came in with ANOTHER donut. Now we were thinking it must be a joke or some trick. Again we went to the window and saw nothing but an open window.
That evening we were outside visiting as we normally did in the neighborhood, and our next-door neighbor made a comment to Luke about the donuts. As we found out, he had been passing them to Luke through his open window. Our neighbor, Jeff, thought it was pretty funny that we didn't know it was him. It was pretty funny.
Jeff also used to catch mice alive in his house and take them across the street to let them go. When I asked him sarcastically where he thought the mice were going when he let them go he said, "To your house, I hope."

1 comment:

  1. Yep, that is funny. Aaawwww, to have such nice neighbors. That Luke, he thought he had a good thing going.

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