Return of the Runaways

A while back, I ranted about some friends that bought a place in Alabama and left without saying goodbye. Recently, I heard from another mutual friend S that she saw the runaway couple and their child at her daughter's school open house. S has said that she and her husband have seen them frequently since school started and the runaways never say more than hi. This is really odd since the runaways are usually very sociable and friendly people. All this time, our group of friends have never gotten a call since they left or returned. I heard of the reason why the prodigal couple has returned...it turned out that Mrs. runaway didn't like the Alabama weather!! Hmmm, I would think if someone is going to make a voluntary choice to move there to get away from "evil" California would have researched the area more thoroughly! Kinda implusive, don't you think? So the runaways have returned and started making a new set of friends. I still feel tossed aside and bitter about the whole ordeal but hey, life goes on...