The Grumpy Mountain Man Next Door

One sharp exchange in the grocery aisle puts two strangers on a path from irritation to attraction once they realize they live next door.

I hit a handsome man's cart by accident, and he reacted as if I had ruined his entire day.

We traded a few tense words and parted, yet I could not shake my curiosity about the mountain man.

I watched him leave, then noticed we were driving the same way, and the grump turned out to be my neighbor.

He was loud as well as difficult, but confronting him outside about the noise showed me I might have misjudged him.

Before long, the man I wrote off as a jerk starts to feel like he could become my whole world.