Meeting Hugh in the Sauna
We bought our condo 10 years ago. At that time, the apartment directly across from us was occupied by an elderly gentleman and his care giver. We tried to be nice or at least pleasant, but he wouldn’t give us the time of day – turns out he was extremely homophobic and didn’t like the gays living next door. He was never hostile, he just tried to ignore us, even if we offered to help carry heavy items or such. He’d just decline or ignore us. After a while we just stopped trying. Sadly, a few years ago (for his family, at least) he passed away. He left the condo to his nephew and the nephew and his wife moved in. Hugh and Lori were close to our age (mid 50s at the time) and we hit it off with them. Lori warned us that Hugh was very homophobic, as his uncle had been, however, he never came across that way. As couples we went out to dinner, relaxed on our balconies, had dinner in each other’s places, drank and enjoyed th...