Brenda, my wife of eight years, is an exhibitionist. You either love her or hate her. I love her, and I hate her. We live in a large West Coast city so it isn’t as bad as it might be in a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business. Could you imagine Brenda in Podunk? I can’t! .
I own my own business, hardware, and Brenda doesn’t need to work. But she likes to keep busy so she works three days a week as a bookkeeper for a cleaner’s here in town. I’d really rather she’d stay home, out of harm’s way so to speak. I’d have a lot less trouble if she did.
You know, of course, that Brenda wears, shall we say, revealing clothing?
At any rate, this is a story she told to me, and I tell it to you just as she told it to me, with comment.
“You know, Charlie, how the boss at the cleaners is always kidding me?”
I knew the boss. He’s a crack up. And I knew my wife too. I nod.
“Well,” she continued, “he made this glass booth kind of office, right behind the counter where all the customers turn in their laundry. Well, he says to me, when I went in this morning, that this office is for me. He wants me to work in this office now. I couldn’t believe he’d do that for me.”
You get that? For me, not “to” me.
“So I say, what the hell. Why not. Sounds like a bit of distraction for his customers but that’s not my problem, right.”