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The Way the Cookie Crumbles

Your wife left you for your best friend. She took the kids. You see them every other weekend, two weeks in the summer, every other Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You lost your seven figure salaried job to down sizing. Your Beemer was reposessed.
Your ex-wife got the Big house, complete with in ground pool, front porch, deck, lawn, trees and two car garage.
You drive by and watch your former best friend mow what was your lawn. Still is as you’re still making the payments. And child support.
Your in-laws hate you. Your folks blame you and no longer visit regularly.
You watch football alone. You drink a lot of beer. You wake up too late to attend mass. You put on wieght. Your clothes don’t fit as well. You need to go to the gym, or buy new clothes.
Your appartment smells like cheese and rat poison.
The married woman across the hall winks at you every evening when you come home from job hunting. She wears too much makeup and her wig is on crooked. But she likes football. You invite her over.

You are happy.

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The Way the Cookie Crumbles
White Hat
Posted 8 months ago

Not sure the last line holds true.
Thinking along the lines of “If you hang yourself, you’ll regret it. If you don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it.”
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Ana Cristina
Posted 8 months ago

I disagree with White Hat. The last sentence works well within the context of what you’ve got going here. And what makes one man miserable can make another man happy.
This story reminds me of a quote: “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” – John Stuart Mill.
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Val
Posted 8 months ago

I’ve watched similar situations. As for “happiness,” it is an elusive thing.
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Apostrophe
Posted 8 months ago

wow.. what a transition. I totoally did not see this coming
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Val
Posted 8 months ago

... and forgot to rate
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THX 0477
Posted 8 months ago

Interesting pairing of ficlets and certainly thought provoking. Not sure I get the ‘moral’, if you intended one. I treat a lot more people who fit the second one than the first one, and, well, I don’t treat people for excessive happiness. Okay, sometimes I do, but that’s a separate thing.
LoA
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SocccerISmyLIFE
Posted 8 months ago

love the title!
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Tad Winslow
Posted 8 months ago

depressing, but entertaining. Being alone is worse than having no money, even if it is a wig wearin wife with too much make-up. Interesting read.