He was late. She took a long, exaggerated gulp of her Pinot Noir, and tried not to panic. He will be here.

“But I will absolutely not help him move over his money into an IRA ,” she thought annoyingly.

Oh, hogwash. Who was she trying to kid? He won’t be here. Even inventing herself, she got stood up.

“Thank heaven I kept all the tags on this suit,” she muttered to herself, absentmindedly scratching behind the collar of her starched, white blouse.

No matter. Tonight, she will ditch the sham and the suit, throw on her sweats and devour bad chinese. There was a good movie on Lifetime tonight that she was dying to catch anyway: She Loved Him Too Much But He Had Commitment Issues, starring Molly Ringwald.