The Recycled Citizen (2012)
““Aunt Appie? Whatever was she doing there?”
“Throwing the place into utter confusion, as far as I could gather,” Theonia replied with uncharacteristic waspishness. “I felt like the Lady of Shalott when she came bounding toward me. Doom staring me in the face, you know. I just stood there feeling idiotic. Fortunately Appie took me at face value and thought I was. She started asking me inane questions in that briskly sympathetic voice she puts on when she’s being helpful. I kept croaking ‘Huh?’ a...s if I were either too deaf or too stupid to understand, and holding out my bag of rubbish. Finally Joan came over and led me into that back room where they take the salvage and pay you. I made a dollar and eighty-five cents! Aren’t you proud of me, Brooks dearest?”
“I am indeed, more proud than I can say. You’ve done a phenomenal job today, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stand for your staging a repeat performance. I don’t often play the heavy husband, Theonia”—understandably not, since his wife outweighed him by at least twenty-five pounds—“but you’re worth something more than a dollar and eighty-five cents to me.MoreLess
“Throwing the place into utter confusion, as far as I could gather,” Theonia replied with uncharacteristic waspishness. “I felt like the Lady of Shalott when she came bounding toward me. Doom staring me in the face, you know. I just stood there feeling idiotic. Fortunately Appie took me at face value and thought I was. She started asking me inane questions in that briskly sympathetic voice she puts on when she’s being helpful. I kept croaking ‘Huh?’ a...s if I were either too deaf or too stupid to understand, and holding out my bag of rubbish. Finally Joan came over and led me into that back room where they take the salvage and pay you. I made a dollar and eighty-five cents! Aren’t you proud of me, Brooks dearest?”
“I am indeed, more proud than I can say. You’ve done a phenomenal job today, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stand for your staging a repeat performance. I don’t often play the heavy husband, Theonia”—understandably not, since his wife outweighed him by at least twenty-five pounds—“but you’re worth something more than a dollar and eighty-five cents to me.MoreLess
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