@Jenny 3:02 PM
- “I think your story was too pat.”
It’s true! The first draft was a long whine. I cut it right down and it shows badly.
- “…women who married, inherited, and lost it all to a husband who squandered it, or became instantly deadbeat.”
Yeah, and I can imagine him now. He’s drinking a beer, watching TV and cursing all the neighbours. Probably he’s wearing dirty clothes and the house is a mess too. My point is that free money is not a blessing and that’s been common knowledge from the oldest times.
It’s human nature. If you work in an office like me, you know what it’s like when the supervisor is away. Do your colleagues keep the customers in mind all day? Hell no! They do “enough” work by their standards, and then they crack jokes, gossip and throw paper planes at each other. I love it.
Free money does that too until it’s spent. I’d like to think that these office ladies can become angelic mothers through the transcendent power of maternal love, but my actual mother said otherwise…
Which reminds me: can you answer my original question?
