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Here’s what Happened
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How Could One/Both Change the
Outcome?
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There are
lots of shops, galleries and artisans there.
Nancy and Tina spend the day browsing the shops, and sit in a sidewalk
café drinking coffee and chatting. As they are headed back to the car, Tina
sees a beautiful comforter in a store window.
It is hand made and just the right color for the new decorating scheme
she is contemplating. On a whim, she
buys the $500.00 comforter, knowing that Tony is going to be angry. But, she doesn’t care. If he can’t take the time to keep his
commitment to her, then he deserves to come home to a big, fat $500.00
receipt!
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Tony finishes his golf
match and has a slight twinge of conscience, so he decides to call home and
see if Tina wants to go out to dinner that night. When he calls, Tina is not there. “The hell
with it”, he thinks. “She’ll call me
when she gets back.”
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Tony has a late lunch and
a few drinks at the golf club and loses track of time. He and his buddies start talking to a few
women at the club and one of them is flirting pretty heavily. Tony is flattered. He thinks about the fact that Tina no longer
tells him he is attractive and silently revels in the attention from this
beautiful young woman.
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In the meantime, Tina
comes home to an empty house. She had
expected Tony to be waiting for her when she got home and she is angry. “I’m not about to cook his stupid dinner so
he can come rolling in whenever he likes and sit down to a hot meal”, she
thinks. She grabs a package of crackers
and a soda and goes into the bedroom to watch a movie.
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When Tony comes home, it
is late. He smells of cigarette smoke
and alcohol and Tina is even more annoyed.
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She doesn’t even say
hello to him.
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He goes into the bathroom
and takes a shower and when he comes out, he notices the bag with the
comforter on the chair. He looks at
the receipt and loses his temper, yelling about their finances and her
irresponsibility.
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Tina leaves the house and
calls Nancy
to meet her for dinner. She is angry and she stays out late just to make Tony
worry.
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