Conversation Topics Old-Guy Neighbor Has Touched Upon While Chatting With Me Through His Window Over the Past Week

• The benefits of castrating pedophiles.



• Gas prices.



• What time and what channel the news is on.



• About some GI back in the 50's that had a sex-change operation and actually didn't look too bad afterwards.



• Getting things stolen out of his apartment.



• How my cats are like Iraqis. (This one I only caught bits and pieces of because a jet was flying overhead.)



• How he hates George W.



• Those cars that are kinda like station wagons.



• His Puerto-Rican girlfriend from back in the day and how he couldn't marry her because she was the second daughter and the first hadn't been married yet and, despite the fact that her dad really liked him, it was tradition to wait until the first daughter got married. How someone had stolen his only picture of her from his apartment a handful of years ago.



• Where to buy kielbasa.



• Some friend of his who is old and uses a motorized scooter to get around.



• How my day was at work.



• Whether to eat spaghetti or a chicken patty for dinner.



• Why it's better to thrift-shop than buy new stuff.



• How back in the day he could get three huge bags of groceries for only $10 at Pick n' Pay.



• How Reagan and Eisenhower were the only Republicans worth a shit.



• How he fed Charlie the Squirrel part of a candy bar the other day.



• How he once had $10,000 saved up until he got laid off.

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