Candy's Peeps

Thursday, July 10, 2014

~ Juicy Character Snippets ~ Bridge Ladies

                                             • Continued •

          Marjorie fiddled with her lucky bra, irritated. The left strap was beginning to dig into her shoulder, causing her some discomfort.

      "So, I did as you advised and didn't make dinner tonight." Marjorie said. She released her firm hold of the bra strap and it snapped back into place.

      "Did he raise a fuss?" Silvia asked. Her ancient-looking hands shuffled the deck of cards. Sloppy in her shuffling overturned cards would catch and stick out like royal slivers.

      "Winston didn't seem to care," Marjorie said, flatly.

       "Well what about his laundry?" Rosa asked.

        "I stopped that months ago."

        "So is he washing them at least?" Betsy questioned.

        "No, he gets them dry-cleaned." Marjorie smiled faintly. "You should have seen the Chinese guy laugh when Winston gave him a pile of sweatpants to clean.

All four friends laughed at Winston's expense.

        "What about chores?" Silvia suggested, she quickly began dealing out the cards. The first card to all four players got flipped over and was showing. No one seemed to take notice. 

       "I suppose I can try that again," Marjorie said. "I gave up when he refused to load the dishwasher, stating the absurdity of having to just dirty them again. He has been eating off paper plates for years now."

        "Isn't he interested in girls? What happened to that one girl who use to pal around with him?" Rosa collected her cards and started organizing them.

       "Moved to Chicago."

        "I got it!" Silvia smacked the card table, knocking over Betsy's Diet Coke. Betsy huffed and shot Silvia a nasty look. "You offer to pay for Winston to fly out to Chicago, give him a chance to catch up with his friend." Silvia finished.

      "And when he does," Rosa chimed in. "That's when you sell your house and buy a tiny one room apartment."

      "I have far too much stuff for some tiny apartment." Marjorie stated.

     "Two words," Silvia tapped her nose. "Yard Sale." 
          




                   

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