| I provided this prompt: "The reason Susan always left her keys in the refrigerator on Wednesdays was simple -". Result: The reason Susan always left her keys in the refrigerator on Wednesdays was simple - to keep them warm. They would get so cold! That morning was another one of those mornings. Susan's husband, Tom was a real handy guy. And it showed. When he showed up at the door that Wednesday morning, there were no keys in sight. Tom looked at her blankly, then at the keys in the freezer and back at Susan. "What's going on here, hon?" Tom asked. "Don't ask me, I'm not one of the mysteries," Susan shot back. "Just look in the refrigerator." Tom, bless his heart, grabbed the keys and opened the refrigerator door. He pulled out a bottle of the finest cognac and carried it over to the couch. Tom was a bit tipsy that morning. "I'm gonna grab the keys," Tom said. "No!" Susan said, reaching for them. But Tom was quicker, he snatched the keys from her fingers |
The reason Susan always left her keys in the refrigerator on Wednesdays was simple - she'd forgotten to take them out. The other six days of the week, she never did it.
"And so, it was a Wednesday morning and we were sitting at the kitchen table and I was telling her that the doctor had decided that she couldn't live on her own anymore."
Susan was a strong, healthy and pretty woman in her 40's. She had a job and was able to take care of herself, although she didn't really work. It was a bit of a shock that something that seemed so obvious that day was going to result in her death a month later. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy. She did well for a while, but her doctors eventually said that she couldn't live on her own anymore. Her parents were both dead and she was living with her sister. They agreed to move her to a nursing home. She would be much safer there and she was getting on in years anyway.
As Susan got weaker,