Frequent Flyers One Friday night, it was just Jean and me in the house. Janet was out on a date. Meredith was gone. She and Adam had reconciled, and she had moved back in with him. She had told us, in a quite unnecessarily scathing manner I felt, that no matter their marital problems, it was better, it was on a more mature plane than the pettiness, the bickering, the turf squabbles that she had to put up with here. We made Adam look good. The last straw had been when Jean dropped an earring down the sink in the downstairs bathroom she shared with Meredith. After a time, the drain got clogged, but neither one would take the responsibility or pay the money to have it fixed, so it became a battle of wills, a contest to see who could be the more stupidly stubborn that went on for weeks. Passing their bathroom on my way out the door in the morning, I often saw one of them leaning over the bathtub faucet, brushing her teeth. Either get a plumber or get a way out, and Meredith chose the latter. So she was gone.
Chapter 24. Frequent Flyers
Chapter 24. Frequent Flyers
Chapter 24. Frequent Flyers
Frequent Flyers One Friday night, it was just Jean and me in the house. Janet was out on a date. Meredith was gone. She and Adam had reconciled, and she had moved back in with him. She had told us, in a quite unnecessarily scathing manner I felt, that no matter their marital problems, it was better, it was on a more mature plane than the pettiness, the bickering, the turf squabbles that she had to put up with here. We made Adam look good. The last straw had been when Jean dropped an earring down the sink in the downstairs bathroom she shared with Meredith. After a time, the drain got clogged, but neither one would take the responsibility or pay the money to have it fixed, so it became a battle of wills, a contest to see who could be the more stupidly stubborn that went on for weeks. Passing their bathroom on my way out the door in the morning, I often saw one of them leaning over the bathtub faucet, brushing her teeth. Either get a plumber or get a way out, and Meredith chose the latter. So she was gone.