Unexpected Pleasure, part I
Forward I walked back from my mail box looking through the bills. I was depressed. I wondered if anything else could go wrong in my life. The stock market was down, the man I supported for president lost the election, the economy was down, inflation raged but no one was paying attention, and a man I throughly detested was the new president of the United States. I coughed at the mere thought. We’re all going to hell in a hand basket, I said to myself. I looked at my watch, it was 3:30 pm, my wife wouldn’t be home until after 6pm. As the cook of the home I began thinking of what I would fix for dinner. I decided on fruit salad and enchiladas. This was Southern California after all. It had been a …