When we were considering purchase of our current home, I went to the next door neighbor to see what they thought of the neighborhood. The woman that answered the door talked to me politely and, once I had won her over, started to whisper “that house over there is Mormon, that one is (can’t remember what now), and we are Christian…just wanted you to know this is a mixed neighborhood.” I couldn’t tell if she was fishing for me to volunteer what I was, or what.
She may be physically ill now that she knows I have no religion and live next door…if she’s figured it out yet.[/quote]
That is a funny story. I laughed out loud. A mixed neighborhood?! Different flavors of christians? What would she do if a Hindu moved in? Or a new age spiritualist? Or an Asian (with an uncountable number of little half-sibling Asians running around)? Or, god forbid, a Jew? Probably just tilt her head, lost, confused, and unable to process the information.
