“A woman your age…” #MFRWhooks

“There’s not enough money in the account to cover it.”

I blew up. “How in the world could you have spent that much money in only a couple of days?”

He started getting angry. “You know expenses keep going up, yet you have never increased the monthly allowance.” I knew he was right, so I reached into my desk drawer and pulled out the checkbook, and wrote him a check, angry at myself for doing it because I didn’t even want a party. As far as I was concerned, there was nothing for us to celebrate.

I about jump out of my skin when I feel his hands on my shoulders bringing me back to the present. “I know turning fifty is really bothering you, but it shouldn’t. You don’t look that bad. Sure, you have a few wrinkles here and there, but that’s to be expected of a woman your age.”

Ok, that’s it, he’s a dead man. If I have wrinkles on my face, which in my opinion are very few, they’re from stress. I grit my teeth and stare out the window. My mind goes to an episode of Diagnosis Murder where the wife almost got away with the perfect crime of killing her husband. I smile as I look out at our lawn. There’s plenty of land to bury his body, and no one will know he’s gone. I can say he went on an extended business trip. One that lasts forever.

I shrug his hands off my shoulders and step away from him, preparing for the fight I know is coming. “I want to cancel the party.”

Instead of the anger I expect, he agrees, “Considering the way you’ve been acting lately, that’s probably a good idea. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to get the deposit back.”

“Why wouldn’t we get our money back?”

“Because we are canceling within 30 days of the party, which means we forfeit the deposit.”

I can feel my blood pressure rising. I’m so sick of him throwing thousands of my hard-earned money away and not even batting an eye. “We’ll see about that.”

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