{"id":8307,"date":"2011-09-13T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:31:42","slug":"real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Dialogue: Wardrobe Culling Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"[The scene: a suburban home in North Florida, USA. He has stayed home from work on this day to prepare a guest bedroom for painting. In this guest bedroom is a closet, and in the closet are His clothes. <\/em>All of them. Woven shirts, knit shirts, jeans, suits, ties, socks, underwear, shoes… It’s not a particularly big closet. It makes sense, on this occasion, to go through the stuff folded or hanging in there, putting aside usable-but-old stuff for Goodwill donation, throwing away unusable-and\/or-old stuff, and just generally… <\/em>organizing — since He will have to completely empty the closet for painting, and then refill it when the painting’s done.]<\/em><\/p>\n

She returns home from work.<\/em><\/p>\n

She:<\/strong> Did you get a lot done?<\/p>\n

He:<\/strong> Uh-huh. The bags in the hall are all trash. I’ll take ’em out in a little bit.<\/p>\n

She goes to the guest bedroom to inspect the results. She returns, smiling.<\/em><\/p>\n

She:<\/strong> Didn’t it feel good<\/em>?<\/p>\n

He:<\/strong> Uh…<\/p>\n

She:<\/strong>\u00a0You know — straightening up the clothes. Getting rid of the stuff you don’t wear anymore. It always makes me feel renewed and refreshed whenever I do that.<\/p>\n

He:<\/strong> Let me put it this way: there were shirts in there that I bought before we’d ever met.<\/p>\n

She:<\/strong> But that—<\/p>\n

He:<\/strong> Yeah. Twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

She:<\/strong> Sooo…<\/p>\n

He:\u00a0<\/strong>Right again. I can’t say I’ve done this often enough to recognize any patterns at all.<\/p>\n

She:<\/strong> [silence]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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