I Love My New Furniture
The next-door neighbor had borrowed my husband’s echo chainsaw last month. I wanted to get it back before Saturday, one way or another. I wanted it back for Jerry to use and simply because it was ours.
I thought to myself that this is how wars start. If neighbors can’t be considerate of each other, how can countries get along. The next-door neighbor, Clark, should have known we would need it back by now. He has been repeatedly inconsiderate over the past three years since we moved here.
As I set the flowers down on the black dining room set, I stood back to admire the good decorating sense I used when I bought it. It looked perfect with the pale green flowered dishes I used. My friends were coming for lunch and I was ready.
Lenore and Clark, her husband, lived right next door. I hoped to get the chance to bring up the borrowed chainsaw during lunch. It wouldn’t be the easiest topic to include along with fashions and prices of food. I would try although it wouldn’t be easy to fit it in the conversation.
I went to the kitchen and checked the wonderful chicken salad in the fridge. Yes nice and chilled, just like Martha Stewart would do it. I smiled at the thought of my own culinary expertise. I was serving it with small croissants and crepes for dessert.
Well here they come I thought as I went in the hall to answer the front door. Jeana had on a pretty sage green blouse and diamond earrings. Ruba wore a yellow sweater and slacks set. Lenore wore jeans and a sweater. Jeana always wore jeans, even to church.
We caught up on neighborhood gossip and I fixed everyone a drink. We carried them into the dining room and I asked how they liked the dining room furniture. They looked it over and admired it. I lit candles, then served the chicken salad. Jeana resolved the difficulty of bringing up the topic of chainsaws by saying her husband was going to cut their grass this weekend. I told them Jerry planned to do that and cut down some bushes that were in front of the windows. I casually asked Lenore if our chainsaw was in her garage.
She said she would bring it over later that day. She told me about the new poulan chainsaw that Clark had purchased. I asked how he liked it and she said he did. We discussed the warranties and how much we had spent on them. We agreed they each got a good deal.
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