Technically we did not meet at a park. We met at McDonald's a couple of weeks ago. While at McDonalds I saw a man come in with a boy about the little man's age. The man reminded me of a guy I used to know. So I asked him and he wasn't. I thought he said his name was Cort. But I heard that wrong.
Skip ahead to today. The weather was perfect. So we checked out a new park we hadn't been to before. A wonderful park. Good play structures, swings and best of all a dog park. When we arrived I saw that man and boy again. And this time we had a nice conversation.
Tor, as his grandson informed was his name, is raising his great-grandson. The boy just turned four and is in the middle picture in the middle of the teter toter thing. Tor said none of his children or step-children wanted to take on the job because the boy was born with meth in his system. So Tor, who is in his 70's and his wife took it on. Then two years ago his wife died.
Tor and I compared notes. Laughed about some things that are the same. I think the boy got to play an hour longer than he would have since his grandpa was talking to me. They go to McDonalds a couple times a week for the play place and they spend a lot of time at this park in the summer.
Bet we run into each other again. And it was nice to talk to someone else on my path.
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