details

"Details" is always a friendly argument between my husband and I. I say truth is in the details. He says details don't matter...MMmmm I think I'm right. One of my favorite books explains it so well...The Catcher in the Rye. The main character Holden explains how everyone thinks his roomate is an incredible guy, when he knows the truth. If you look into his roomates shaving kit you would see that's it's filthy. That shaving kit shows the nitty gritty truth of his roomate. Not the public person everyone sees but the true man he is, which is a filthy ass.

So that said I can explain that I do not know one of my neighbors at all. I know her name, so I shall call her V. Her name is all I really know about her yet I know that I really really dislike her. I dislike the type of human she is...why? Well, it's the little details of her that I witness.

1. She parks her car crooked and in front of my other neighbors front door (I live in townhouses)
2. When she first moved here her daughter wandered the streets on her bike for hours at a time. I never saw an adult with her. Girl looks to be about 7.
3. She keeps her poodle tied to it's dog crate in the garage 24/7. The weather is getting hotter my patience for seeing this poor animal getting ready to cook alive is becoming a shorter and shorter fuse.
4. She leaves her home to go to her crooked car to go wherever it is she goes dressed like freaking Jay-lo. She struts out like some freaking movie star with her head held very high as her child wanders the streets & her dog lives a horrible life.

See...these are all details of her. I really don't know her...maybe if I tried I would like her. I would think she's cool. But that won't happen because the truth of her is in the these details a casual observer as myself has witnessed. I personally want to tie her to that dog crate and close the garage door.

I wonder what details people have noticed about me?

1. I spend a large amount of time standing at my front door in a tank top, pair of Will's boxers yelling "puppies...puppies....."
2. I am one of the most social/anti-social people you'll ever meet...constantly wanting to hide in my cave and constantly making plans with friends to go "somewhere..."
3. My car is filthy but my kitchen is clean...
4. I have an honest fear of zombies/aliens.

Are any of those things details? If they are what do they say about me...other than I'm a bit touched in the head???

I don't know....but what I do know for certain no matter what my dear hubby says, is the truth of a person is in the details of what & how they live their lives.