SITTING IN THE MALL

'Until Death Do Us Part'  by  Trish

One day, after shopping,  I sat down to rest on a seat in a Mall.
The man beside me started up conversation. He told me
"I'm on holidays with my wife, we live in Tasmania.
We've waited a long time for this holiday, by God we have!
and we're going to make tthe most of it believe you me!"

He talked about the sights he and his wife had enjoyed ,  A young girl sat down on the other side of the man. He turned to her and said exactly what he'd already told to me.The young girl said, "I'm from interstate myself, I'm looking for cheap accomodation, I'm almost broke".

The man  shifted closer to the girl, and a strange thing happened, he began to speak very fast and to get angrier by the second. This is what he said.

"I could help you,
I've got more money than I know what to do with,
but she wouldn't let me give a scent to anyone.
She knows every detail of my life. Where we're staying,
she does more work than the staff!
The beds are pulled out every morning, mattresses turned over,
blankets spread out to air, it drives me crazy and so does she!
Yes, I could help you, but I wouldn't dare.
My son is as big a pressure as the wife. Sex! Sex!
that's all he can think of! He's obsessed with it! He makes me sick with his, his..."

The man seemed lost for words.  A few days later I passed the man and his wife, a miserable looking woman, having morning tea in the Mall. As I approached, I noted the woman's high pitched ugly tone. Even when well past, I could  hear her voice. She was full of complaints about the weather, the lazy people in this world, the poor service these days and more. I'd actually caught the man's eye as I approached,  but I thought it best not to acknowledge him, it was clear from the startled dart of his eye's he agreed with me.