“Well! What’s the occasion?” asked Cathy.
“No occasion,” replied Denny. “Just wanted to give you a treat to start our long weekend.”
“Looks delicious,” she replied. She picked up her fork, and ate the raw veggies. “I can’t have the cheese and sausage, you know. Too calorie-dense.”
“Okay, just shift them to my plate.”
“One piece of toast, no butter. I’ll dip it in my eggs. You can have the rest.”
“Can’t you take a break from all that this weekend?”
“And have a blue Monday? There’s plenty of salad in the fridge.”
He sighed.
Just Writing! 
Well, the plate looks yummy.
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Indeed it does! I think I may have enjoyed it and then cut back somewhere else 🙂
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People on diets… can be… frustrating. He tried.
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Yes. And she would have been wise to just enjoy it.
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I’m focusing on the red telephone. It brings back memories. When I was a girl, my grandfather was the senior associate warden of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. He and my grandmother lived in the large warden’s mansion, located just in front of the prison, because the warden had his own house in town.
In the pre-digital age, there was a red telephone in every room of the mansion. If you took the receiver off the hook, even for a second, it sent a signal of distress to the guards’ tower. Then a swarm of guards, armed with assault rifles, would immediately deploy to the room in the mansion where the receiver had been lifted off the hook.
Speaking from experience. 😦
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Well, that’s a little gem of knowledge to tuck away in my mind for possible future use!
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Oh, I can’t wait to see how you will use that!
If you go to Wikipedia and type United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth in the search field, you will see a picture at the top right of that page. Click on the picture to enlarge it, and there you will see the large brick house, in front of the massive prison, where my grandparents lived in the 1960s with their red security phones. It gives me chills just looking at that picture. 😉
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Thanks!
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A strong-willed woman
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Perhaps to her own hurt.
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I admire her resolve. I would have tucked in and let the diet wait. Mouth-watering story. 🙂
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Me too! Sometimes PEOPLE are more important than food plans!
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Dear Linda,
She’s one dedicated dieter. Hope she’s not too much on the wrong side of that. 😉 Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I hadn’t thought of that possibility. Good catch. I was thinking more of her losing a relationship than of losing weight.
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You’re right, Iain, but not at the risk of losing the closeness in a relationship. I think she’d have been wiser to enjoy the breakfast and make up for it later in the day.
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It’s tough, but I’m with Cathy, you have to stick with it or it will all be for nothing!
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You’re right, Iain, but not at the risk of losing some of the warmth in a relationship. I think she’d have been wiser to enjoy the breakfast and make up for it over the next couple of days 🙂
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It is a lot of food – even if you’re not on a diet 🙂
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Yes, it is. Probably a full day’s worth of calories all on one plate :). Still, to toss cold water on his gesture may have cost her more than calories.
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I admire the dedication. Not something I can quite into the swing of right now, but…
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I’m learning that sometimes you have to be flexible about the whole diet thing. Relationships are important.
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It would take a very strong-willed person to reject that plate of deliciousness, diet or not!
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Agreed. It really does tempt one!
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when there’s a will, there’s a way.
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Only the carb items might be an issue. Well dome. 🙂
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Come on, Cathy, live a little! I’m sure once in a while can’t hurt 🙂
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I really think she would have been wiser to enjoy the breakfast her husband brought to her. As long as it’s not an every-day event.
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She’s trying to stick to her diet and he’s trying to do something nice for her. Lots of tact needed to deal with this situation. Your story shows the tension in the air very well as the dialogue proceeds. Final line is just right.
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Thanks, Margaret. It’s a true-life situation 🙂
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There’s a term for those who like to overfeed others but I don’t know what it is. I never heard the term Blue Monday, but it doesn’t sound good for the mind or the body. Good story, Linda.
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Thanks 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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