I moved into this new little tight knit community, and honestly there are a lot of different individuals we get the pleasure of meeting on the daily. One in particular is this older woman, she has to be in her late 80’s but she’s a little firecracker.

We first spotted her when we bought the place, she’d sit on this little chair on her balcony and watch us from above quietly, just watching. My grandfather does the same thing, so we’d wave at her and continue our process. A few weeks go by and I have to get back to work, my boyfriend keeps working on our house. So she sees him, and yells down to him, “Eso es abuso!” ‘That’s abuse’ she yells down to him from her perch.

He looks up a little confused, holding slabs of wood in his arms, but doesn’t say anything, thinking she can’t possibly be talking to him.

“Te a dejado trabajando, que se piensa ella?” ‘she left you working here, what does she think of herself!’ She yells down at him.

And of course he explains that I had to go to work and due to Covid his hasn’t totally reopened yet, he does a gig here, two there but nothing serious, so he’s taking advantage of the down time and fixing the house while he can.

She seems flustered so she crosses her arms and sits back down continuing to watch him.
He filled me in later that afternoon when I got home, as to why the little old woman across the way was giving me the stink eye.

So it begins…