Rock The Choice

It happened again this morning. I was awoken at 6:30 this morning by a phone call. No, not some drunken idiot wanting to fight me, but someone who was coming to do some work at the centre. He wasn't going to be there at 7:00, it was going to be more like 8. That was cool with me, and I rolled over and went back to sleep for a while. Next time I wake up it's time for me to leave so I grab the dog and head out in the car.

I get out there, and I'm talking to the guy when he starts telling me about how he used to be a greenskeeper at the local bowls club. Used to work when he had to, any day of the week. He was married at the time, and his wife worked at an office in town. One day that was like today, pretty wet, he decided that he'd head home to have lunch there rather than at the club. So home he heads, and what does he discover? His wife in bed with another man. Apparently this man was someone that he knew, but not a friend. Not to the man anyway. So he kicked this guy out of his home, pushed him down the front stairs and almost put his wife through a wall. Apparently he'd never hit a woman.

The relationship was over after that. It was a few years ago now, and he's remarried. The other fella stuck with the wife for a few months, then left her.

He still thinks about his old wife. Sometimes still wishes that things could get back to the way they were, but that can't happen anymore, he's got a new wife. He told me that it's very hard to get through this life totally alone, and that sometimes a companion is the best you can hope for. Just someone to hang onto when there's a bit of turmoil. Someone you can rely on when those times come, because they will.

A cheery way to start the weekend isn't it?