Privacy.....Not that big of a deal
I hate showing my age but not long after my husband left me, I was going through a lot and was reaching out a lot to my very supportive friends by phone. Not only was this before cell phones, this was when cordless phones were new. One Saturday winter arrived with a bang. Cold and miserable and I had no appropriate outerwear for my kids. We went to SAAN and literally nothing remotely in their sizes. We had to go to a sports store and get them beautiful "Columbia" snow suits. They were of highest quality but at that time they cost me more than my very last penny. I literally didn't have access to another nickel. I remember crying to my bff on the phone that, among other things, I couldn't even afford mittens for my kids. At the time I lived next door to an elderly couple who were not very friendly and stayed to themselves and didn't even say "good morning" over the fence. On Sunday evening they knocked on my door with a bag of very much needed bag of ...