Strangers
“At the counter, Beth, in her housecoat, poured herself coffee in a yellow “Smiley Face” mug and then came to join him. Through the east window, the sun cast a sharply angled parallelogram between them on the butcher block table.
“Good eggs,” Michael said. He performed a Groucho Marx, eyebrow waggling leer. “Eggs help a man restore some of his recently drained vital juices.”
Beth laughed. “Michael, you are terrible.”
“I yam what I yam and ‘at’s all what I yam,’ Michael grinned, left eye set in a... Popeye squint.
The portable radio on the counter reported the eight o’clock weather forecast. The start of the work week would be—“What else, Chicagoland?” demanded a manic deejay—another scorcher, temperature near 90, humidity near “hideous!”
Michael said, “We could use a good rain, break this heat wave.”
“It would help,” Beth agreed.
Same old scene in the same old script, Michael thought. Breakfast: The Husband and The Wife discuss The Weather, and then, naturally, The Kids.MoreLess
“Good eggs,” Michael said. He performed a Groucho Marx, eyebrow waggling leer. “Eggs help a man restore some of his recently drained vital juices.”
Beth laughed. “Michael, you are terrible.”
“I yam what I yam and ‘at’s all what I yam,’ Michael grinned, left eye set in a... Popeye squint.
The portable radio on the counter reported the eight o’clock weather forecast. The start of the work week would be—“What else, Chicagoland?” demanded a manic deejay—another scorcher, temperature near 90, humidity near “hideous!”
Michael said, “We could use a good rain, break this heat wave.”
“It would help,” Beth agreed.
Same old scene in the same old script, Michael thought. Breakfast: The Husband and The Wife discuss The Weather, and then, naturally, The Kids.MoreLess
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