Personalized

Faye was a horror. A selfish, passive-aggressive, black-haired beauty that stayed with Neil just until he dropped out of the welding program at the community college and then she left him. She broke every personalized coffee mug that he had given her. She washed his clothes with olive oil. She even threw his Macadamia nuts on the floor and crushed them with her tiny little feet. But Neil just sat at the kitchen table, legs crossed, reading the letters to the editor and sucking on a handful of sunflower seeds. And finally when he heard her car door shut, Neil spit his seeds on the floor and uncrossed his legs, resting them up on the table—right next to the broken handle of the first mug he gave Faye.