You Never Know
Friends of my wife and I moved to Alabama last year. He was my Army roommate and we met them before they were married. We have stayed in touch through the years. They came out and visited us when we moved to Iowa. We got together several times a year and played cards and visited. Our children are of similar ages so they all had someone to play with during the all day get togethers. He worked for General Motors and wanted to move up in the organization but was being held back by the sheer size of the organization and his plants desire to maintain his talent where it was. That back fired and he took a job in Alabama working for a raw material processor. We got a call one Friday night on our voice mail saying they were moving and poof, we didn’t hear from them for almost nine months.
I surfed the internet until I found their number and finally called them last weekend. I heard a female voice on the end of the line and it did not have that characteristic southern accent so I knew I had the right number. It was a great feeling to have located them and talk to them again. We had been talking about them weekly and wondering where they were finally locating them was a relief.
After talking to them for a while, I found out that my friend’s wife is having a hard time adjusting and that she had tried to call us several times but was depressed and didn’t. I could hear the happiness in her voice when I talked to her that we had found them and were worried about their welfare. After not seeing or hearing from them for almost a year, we helped to soothe her worries that she was forgotten. Having moved around as much as we have, my wife knows that feeling of loss and how difficult it is to make friends in a new town. Especially where you are the Yankee outsider and your spouse is a manager at the largest local employer.
I am glad that we finally hooked up and are actually talking about a long weekend visit. It will be nice to see them again and I have never been to Alabama so I could add another state to my list in the process. And since they are not too far from Mississippi, which I have also not visited, I could make it two for one.
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Cobb
I surfed the internet until I found their number and finally called them last weekend. I heard a female voice on the end of the line and it did not have that characteristic southern accent so I knew I had the right number. It was a great feeling to have located them and talk to them again. We had been talking about them weekly and wondering where they were finally locating them was a relief.
After talking to them for a while, I found out that my friend’s wife is having a hard time adjusting and that she had tried to call us several times but was depressed and didn’t. I could hear the happiness in her voice when I talked to her that we had found them and were worried about their welfare. After not seeing or hearing from them for almost a year, we helped to soothe her worries that she was forgotten. Having moved around as much as we have, my wife knows that feeling of loss and how difficult it is to make friends in a new town. Especially where you are the Yankee outsider and your spouse is a manager at the largest local employer.
I am glad that we finally hooked up and are actually talking about a long weekend visit. It will be nice to see them again and I have never been to Alabama so I could add another state to my list in the process. And since they are not too far from Mississippi, which I have also not visited, I could make it two for one.
Icool
Cobb
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