Hey, Are You Married

We were doing it for love, or were we? This is just another example of this puppy at work. As may be seen in the book “How to Train a Wild Puppy Dog Named Manley.”

“Yes, I was married before,” I told her this in response to her queries about my marital status, or more like, why a nice guy like me is not. You know, like? Married? “I got hitched at twenty-six years of age. That marriage lasted for four years. We were together for only three of those four years when she was to have up and left, and a year later, we were divorced. She found someone else. Someone who just happened to have had much more money than I did.

So, she started acting up and behaving weirdly and blaming me for anything and everything. Then, I would have committed the biggest faux pas ever, when I gave her a cheap gift I picked up at the pawnshop on her birthday. That’s all I could afford at the time or barter trade for, but it’s the thought that counts. Right? She said she needed space.

It wasn’t long afterward though before that space was nicely filled by someone else, someone who just happened to be her brother’s best friend and co-worker. They were both jockeys riding at the Woodbine racetrack at the time and were locked tight in an epic and fierce battle to become the top jockey of the year. The money was rolling in in that arena. ‘Coincidence or what?’ Little buggers weren’t just riding horses though. They were riding bitches too.”

“Ugh!” Libby gasped. “Are you serious? I can’t believe you just said that.”

“Bitches as in dogs you know? You know, these competitive sports professional types?” I said further, lying through my grinning white teeth. “They just seemed to delight themselves in spending time and money on extra-curricular, extra-judicial activities, such as those that cannot face the light of a Sunny day,” I said all of that, continuing along in the deceit, trying to deter her from the real and original meaning of what she knew darn well that I was saying. She wasn’t fooled, that’s for sure.

“Yeah, right,” she said.

To be continued.

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