Day CXCV

She luvs me, She luvs me Not!

     Business will make you smoke, but sometimes your personal problems may be bigger than your business ones. I met a guy with a very successful video store in Staten Island. His wife worked in the city, she had a high profile, responsible position, and they were doing very well. I used to go by once a month, and after we did our business, we would talk, and sometimes solve the world's problems.

      “Divorce is a disgrace in our society today, ya na.” He said to me one day. 

     “Yea, one just never knows.”

     “Well I’m doing okay, but you know, I have this false tile in one of the closets. You just can’t tell it’s false. Anyway, every week, I put away a couple of hundred in it. Been doing it for a few years now.”

    “For you, and the old lady, uh?”

    “No man, she doesn’t know a thing.”

    “Then, how come?”

    “Well, like we said, one never knows, you know. If she were to leave me, the freaking state would giver her everything, man. I’d have nothing. So that’s just insurance, man.” He said it with a big smile, and a lot of pride, as he locked his hands behind his head, and leaned back in his chair.

     “Don’t you love each other?”

     “Sure we do!”

     “Then, why the insecurity?”

     “Look dude this store takes all my freaking time, man. I work like sixteen to eighteen hours a day sometimes. When I come home I’m tired, and all I want to do is eat, watch a lil television, maybe a video, and go to sleep. We don’t have time for damned near anything. She’s almost in the same boat, after a long day at work, she has to deal with the ferry, the bus, then kids and home.”

     “I hear ya, so what makes you think she would leave ya?”