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Pat

Dunno, 'cause I couldn't get past pondering that nothing is as weighty and possibly fatefully consequential as a woman's 'Nothing'...

posted by Nautikos on June 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM | link to this | reply

It begins snowing. Hard. All night. The wind rises......

posted by majroj on June 4, 2008 at 5:24 PM | link to this | reply

Pat_B

She wipes away the fake tears, tiptoes to the curtains and peers out.  When he disappears around a corner, she picks up the telephone, rings a number and says.

"He's gone my darling.  How soon can you get here;  I miss you so much.   You're parked just around the corner?  That's wonderful, I'll leave the door unlatched.  Please make sure he doesn't see you......what was that noise.....Harry? Harry?  HARRY!!!"

posted by johnmacnab on June 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM | link to this | reply

Well, as a writer

I was thinking something similar to what Azur suggested. Finds himself in an unfamiliar part of town, maybe passes out in an alley and wakes up next to a grizzly murder scene, or in a strange bed with a strange woman?

But, since he seems like a bit of a jerk, the indignant woman in me would like to see him get run over by a bus.

posted by Sira890 on June 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM | link to this | reply

i imagine him as an ex-smoker (because I'm a projector) and the next thing he does is walk to an all-night convenience store. he goes in and buys a pack and walks around with it in his hand. then he starts to ask himself why he gets so angry and sees that his wife doesn't need a reason to be sad just as he doesn't need a reason to be angry. Something along those lines anyway.

posted by jmh256 on June 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM | link to this | reply

Well...........

   He walks along their street, and soon his in a street he's never even noticed before and

he sees something he later wishes he never saw. But worse than that he is seen too. When he doesn't make it home that night, his wife cusses him and says she always knew he was a philanderer. Meanwhile, he wakes up with a concussion, in a room with blue curtains.

posted by Azur on June 4, 2008 at 8:21 AM | link to this | reply