Man Notices a Girl in the Window Calling to Him Everyday and Decides to Check Her House — Story of the Day
A man notices a little girl waving at him from a mysterious house where no one is supposed to be living and decides to find out who she is.
Tim Jenkins had one of the most unappreciated yet necessary jobs in the world: he took away the garbage. Every morning, long before dawn, he and his colleague would drive around the town and take away the refuse the inhabitants had collected the previous day.
No one ever saw them, or at least, no one except for one little girl. Every morning, Tim would get off the garbage truck in front of one particular house, and there was always a little girl at the window tapping on the glass to get his attention.
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As soon as the girl saw that Tim looked up, she waved excitedly and mouthed something he couldn’t make out. Tim would wave back and mouth, “Good morning!” and the girl would give him a big smile.
This would happen every single day, and even though the girl and her family seemed to be living in the house, their garbage bins were always empty. However, Tim noticed that the newspapers were piling up on the front porch.
In fact, as the days went by, the house started to look unkempt and abandoned. The only sign of life was the little girl waving from the window every morning before dawn.
Tim started to worry about her, so one afternoon, when he was off work, he decided to drive around the neighborhood and investigate. He walked up to the door of the little girl’s house and rang the doorbell.
He then knocked and waited patiently, but there was no answer. He thought the little girl was at school and her mom was at work, but something just didn’t feel right.
In comparison, the house next door was very pretty, with a well-kept lawn and roses blooming around the white picket fence. There were no weeds and no newspapers on the porch!
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Tim walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell. A little while later, he heard the sound of footsteps, and a pretty woman opened the door. “Yes?” she asked. “How may I help you?”
Tim was suddenly nervous. He took off his baseball cap and said, “Good afternoon, ma’am. Sorry to bother you. I work with the garbage disposal unit that works this street?”
“Oh,” the woman said. “You...