“When are you coming home?” I asked the soldier who is getting close.

“When I get there.”

I laughed. “I knew you’d say something like that. You don’t want to give me a time.”

“Well no I don’t because if I do and I don’t get there, you’re mad.  You don’t know what it’s like to be in love you and have you go off the deep end and start yelling at me.”

“You don’t know what it’s like to be in love with you and have you yelling at me, your voice goes down the street to the neighbors!  You know every once in awhile someone starts yelling around here,  a neighbor yells and I hear their voice come barreling in the window. I can hear them all right, and they aren’t even 1/10 as loud as you.”

“Next time I yell, I’m gonna yell, the bird has got her claws in me!  She wont’ get off my horn!”

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Just be glad you don’t live around here. I told someone of our fights the other day,  “We’re so loud and we’re so terrifying people don’t call 911 because they think there is no time for anyone to get there anyway. There are just sure someone is going to be killed - a murder in imminent, it’s seconds away so they stand their frozen in terror but really we’re just havin’ a talk… loudly, I admit.”

We fight less but the hot wires still cross on occasion.  Every 2-3 months there is a hoe-down.

For the record we do not name call and that kind of stuff. It is all who did what, when and why, arguing about topics no one else in the world would ever think to do. We may as well be screaming, “You danced with a girl when we were 12!”

“We dagnamit, P, you crossed the street!  What do you think I am going to do if you do that, huh? You think I am going to lie down and let you walk all over me! I am crossing that street too! In fact I am going to cross that motherfucker two times and you know it!”

::shakes head::

Then we go on to fight about how much we know and people do stare in wonder. They just don’t know how we landed… where me might have come from because regardless where we are they know it’s “not from around here.”

We’re like Underdog and Polly from the dark side.