As a preface, when my wife and I first moved into our new town home, we were surprised to find somebody already living across from us.

We've been told we were the first to move into the newly built community and for sale signs still stood in front of every home but ours and the one directly across from us.

The neighbor himself was nice enough. He was a curious man, perhaps mid-40s, with some receding

hair and cleanly shaven face. He dressed in two-size-to- collared shirts and dress pants that were so heavily

starched they seemed to always hang around his thin frame.

There were many small oddities about him aside from his clothes, but when we first met him, I was relieved to have such a friendly,

and albeit talkative, first neighbor.

When we met him on our first day at the new home, while I unloaded boxes from the small rental box truck, and my wife moved everything where it needed to be once inside, we met him on our first day at the new home, while I was unloading boxes from the small

rental box truck and my wife moved everything where it needed to be once inside.

We had moved from a smaller apartment complex and since we didn't have much the pack, the

moving was thankfully easy enough for the two of us to handle on our own.

The neighbor made his first appearance towards the end of the day when I was unloading the last of the boxes into the driveway.

I stopped to take a break and heard the door across the street closed.

I looked over to see our new neighbor waving as he came across

the talk. He made a friendly first impression. We talked a little about the neighborhood

and the construction and soon my wife came out to meet him as well.

He introduced himself as Andrew, and told us he had just moved in as well and was glad to already have neighbors.

We spent most of the conversation answering questions about ourselves, where we had lived,

our jobs, if we had family in the area area and so on and so forth. I should mention that to me

this was all rather casually brought up and the conversation was quite normal.

Since the sun was about to set and we still had boxes to move, I

mentioned as much to him and we parted in a friendly way. As soon as he was gone,

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