The House in the Middle

WHEN the last of their four children was about to leave home, my husband's parents decided to downsize and buy a smaller house in a retirement community. They called their trusted Realtor and she put a sign in the yard right away. A couple of days later, a second "For Sale" sign went up two doors away. "Soon you'll have new neighbors on both sides of you," my husband's mother remarked to the neighbor whose house was sitting in the middle of the two houses for sale. "We're thinking of putting up our own sign," she replied with a huge grin. "It would read: 'Was it something we said?' "