The boss is staying late today that is not fun.
While walking through the store I heard someone calling my name. It was the marriage counselor Ron and I saw in 2005. He didn't ask about Ron (maybe because he saw my bare left hand) and I didn't tell him. I just gave him a hug and went back to work.
While waiting for my dinner I thought about an incident from many years ago.
When I was a teenager and young adult I really enjoyed going to the mall. There was a large and thriving mall fairly close to my apartment in CA. Ron would go with me.
I used to like to go to a bath and body shop. It had big jars of perfume oil I could apply and a lot of highly priced things I could not afford. One time we went and I applied a new fragrance behind my right ear. It was one of those fruity scents so popular in the 90's.
I had an acute allergic reaction. My ear swelled up and became incredibly itchy and painful. Ron was mortified I had "Allowed" this to happen and kept asking me what people would think of him walking with me like that. I was sick. I was in pain. I could have died. He should have taken me to the ER. Instead he had a tantrum and demanded we leave.
I'm just going to leave it there and go do something fun.
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