This damn landscaping is the gift that keeps on giving. Giving me more chores and responsibilities and ways to sweat my freaking ass off! Thanks a lot, Tom!
Soaked to my skin, I gave up and lay down in the hammock. I was drying off my clothes and cooling off my temper when that freaking jerk Guilty Conscience showed up and tried to convince me that maybe I had been the insensitive one.
Had I been wrong to grouse about Tom’s beautiful and probably damn-expensive birthday gift? I gave my unwanted visitor an angry glare and a couple of Tanqueray and tonics. The second TNT, along with a Southern dollop of self-righteousness, had just begun to loosen guilt’s whiny stranglehold on me when I heard a familiar voice call my name.
“Val?”
So much for enjoying the tranquility of my new backyard. Geeze! Maybe I really was being an ungrateful sourpuss….
I took a tentative peek out of the hammock at the nosey, long-legged, horse-faced old woman in a gold bikini.
“Hi, Laverne.”
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