IT BEGGARS BELIEF, female Copyright P. Audcent 2014
Nancy Graham was a middle aged widow who had a son who was married to Jenny at the ripe old age of eighteen. That was six years ago but life came to a screaming halt when the boy, one Jeff Graham was found full of barbiturates had crashed into a tree near his home. This of course gave Jenny a sad end to her already rickety marriage, and to her mother in law sadnes with unprecedented gossip about her son, well known for his rowdy and drunken behaviour. So he was buried with a tear from his indulgent mother and a little relief from Jenny.
And so it came to pass that Jenny unable to continue with the mortgage moved in with her mother in law. Nancy in the meantime had started proceedings against the government for the pothole in the road that her wayward son had supposedly hit. Nancy was spurred on by the frequent advertisements of legal claim companies who charged the claimants nothing in costs but received fifty percent of the payout.
It was shown that the pothole itself served no purpose in the accident it being a kilometre down from the crash site. But a stomach full of liquor and drugs were the eventual cause.
When after two years Adam Henry came to rent the house next door, both women took a fancy to this tall strong blond with blue eyes. Jenny was initially very shy, having been somewhat affected by her previous marriage, but Adam seemed such a quite inoffensive man and he was gorgeous looking to boot. One would have expected Nancy to encourage her daughter in law in her gentle approach to this hunk but not a bit of it, Nancy herself was also attracted to this new neighbour, after all she was still young at heart and looking in the mirror one day she decided to buy several of the products for anti wrinkles and skin care to improve the canvass so to speak. She even got to sitting and displaying her elegant legs on the front porch bench just about the time Adam was due from work and walk past her home.
Well eventually she called him over one afternoon and they sat together with a beer discussing the ways of the world with Nancy ever so carefully bringing out Adams past and present pursuits. No, he was not engaged or married, he only rented the house next door until he had saved a deposit to buy his own home, and on and on he went until Jenny also arrived home from work. By that time Adam had quite dried up in spite of drinking three of Nancy's beers. So he shook both their hands and left hurriedly. Of course this caused eruptions to follow from Nancy. 'Could Jenny not see how well Adam was getting on with her, why couldn't she notice and stay away for awhile.' And from Jenny 'He's not interested in you Nancy with your face all covered in that gross greeny brown coloured skin enhancer.' Well the effect on Nancy was to slap Jenny across the face and then run indoors to wash the stuff off which she had forgotten to do in her eagerness to get outside onto the porch.
Well Adam had already understood the effect he was having on these two neighbours and being a thoughtful person realised this could cause friction between them. So he packed his bags ready to leave and visited the local estate agent. He had over the past two years saved enough to place a part payment on a small apartment they were just completing down in the town, so he moved in a month later having avoided both women those previous weeks, by arriving home later at night and skulking past Nancy's house or later staying with friends. He never saw his old neighbours again.
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