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OK, here's a true story:
A few years back, I was at a gas station right off an exit on I-95. At the next pump, there was an older station wagon towing a small but new-looking camper, and the driver was pumping gas. He was to my mind quite unattractive: short and pudgy, in his early 60's, with a thin, polyester shirt, greasy thinning hair, stooped shoulders, and a most unpleasant demeanor. It was appalling. He was actually shouting into the convenience store, presumably for his wife: "D*** it, Mommy! Hurry up! What the h**l are you doing?!" He continued in this manner off and on for 3 or 4 minutes: "...what's the matter with you, Mommy.....hurry up....d**n it all....". I was angered by it and embarrassed for this poor woman. In my mind, "Mommy" was starting to look like (dating myself here) Edith Bunker. Any moment now she would come trotting out of the store in her dumpy attire, pocketbook clutched in front of her, to nervously face more of his swearing and wrath and who knows what other kind of treatment....
.....So imagine my surprise when "Mommy" saunters out in her cowboy boots, blue jeans over the thin legs that seemed to go up to her shoulders, and a half-unbuttoned chambray shirt....tanned, blonde, and looking like a 40-ish recently retired model! She slowly walks over and drops a kiss on the top of his greasy little head (easy to reach, since she was nearly a head taller than he, in her heels), and she says - or rather purrs - "awww....worried?" in a baby-talk voice. With a toss of the blonde hair, she swings her supple body into the passenger seat as he, still frowning and muttering, gets behind the wheel, and off they go - with me, frankly staring after them.
So here are my questions: is he shallow, for having a beautiful "trophy wife"?
Is she shallow, for coddling him and not standing up to his behavior?
Or am I shallow, for assuming that he's worth at least $5 mil and she gets it all??!
Last edited by graceventually; August 10,2009 at 9:32pm.
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