a little reminder

It’s so weird out there…

Today we went to the title company to sign papers on a refi for our mortgage. We were able to shave off a couple years and a bit of our monthly payment thanks to current low-interest rates and @rochelleeigsti and @corebank. We waited in the car while the appointment before ours finished up their meeting on the sidewalk. They were wearing masks and sitting at a folding table next to the building. A woman wearing a mask and gloves appeared and handed them a folder. As the people collected their things and sauntered to their cars, another woman appeared with Clorox wipes, proceeding to wipe down every inch of the table and all three chairs.

The wind had picked up by the time it was our turn. The masked/gloved woman offered us a squirt of hand sanitizer before handing us each a brand new pen that had “never been touched by another person.” We sat down at the table and began fighting the wind as we signed our name on one-after-the-next of the documents in the endless stack. It was quiet and awkward. She didn’t offer much explanation or conversation. We were uncomfortable with the weirdness of it all. Both of us were unusually quiet until Dale put a dot on my hand when he handed me one of the documents. The next one came to him and as he passed it, he completed this little smiley face on my hand. It made me feel less strange and more like us. When we got home, I wrote it on my list of things I love about him.

Maybe that’s the best part of staying together after all these years. We know how to be us even when everyone else is being weird.

…and they shall become one flesh. Gen. 2:24