My father-in-law had a car shop before when my husband and I were little. They had their shop and house at our parallel neighboring street. I didn’t know my husband back then.
My husband told me his version of the story that he already saw me when I was little. He said that he always saw me passing by their shop every time he plays at the chrome rims placed near their shop gate. He always teases me that I was “sip-onon” before. That he means that I am “a person who has colds always and looks dirty because of the runny nose.”

As for me, I didn’t remember him well but when my cousin who used to be his playmate saw him, he agreed on the story that my husband was really our neighbor before. Gosh, who wouldn’t know that our neighbor and my cousin’s playmate would become my husband when I have grown up?

Anyway, regarding the car shop, it is still there but is no longer managed by my father-in-law. They moved out many years ago that is the reason why I didn’t knew my husband was our neighbor back then. They moved in the same barangay as we are now but no longer in the same zone.