the pollyanna chronicals: the kindness of strangers

i'm getting married in 8 days!!! :)

but before i do, i needed a certified copy of my divorce papers. a nuisance, but no big deal.

i took the morning off to drive out to the courthouse and pick them up.

except the courthouse where i got divorced was closed. not closed as in "come back in an hour and they'll be open" but closed as in boarded up. uh oh.

i walked around the building trying to find some indication of where the courthouse went with no luck until a group of older puerto rican gentleman starting yelling 'hey lady, the building is closed!' i'm not in the greatest area of the city and i'm by myself. but it was 10am and 2 blocks from the police station so i initiated a conversion with them. 'do you know where the courthouse is now?' 'just around the corner on main street - i'm heading that direction, let me walk you there.'

um ..... ok?

definitely a little nervous, but again it's 10am not 10pm and the streets aren't exactly empty. i joined the gentlemen who turned out to be very sweet gentlemen for the 5 minute walk around the corner to where the courthouse is now located. i learned that one of them had a 23 year old daughter and 26 year old son; he hadn't seen his son in 23 years and the son is coming up from puerto rico next month to visit him.

in the end, i got to the courthouse, got the papers i needed, and enjoyed a nice conversation with a very sweet gentleman. he really made the situation a lot better and i enjoyed meeting him.