My Kindly Neighbour
Being left at home for the first time while your parents go out is a big day for a ten-year old boy when you’re used to babysitters, or being dragged out shopping all afternoon when all you wants is to stay home and play in the yard. Some big days turn out bigger than others though, and this one would become the most monumental day of my short life… Middle of summer, beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon. My parents had extracted a solemn promise, on pain of death – well, a month’s grounding at least – that I wouldn’t leave the backyard under any circumstances, and (my mom) somewhat reluctantly agreed that I could stay home while they went to do the weekly food shopping. Considering it took about four hours, including the trip to and …