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With only one person, there's

half the number of pillows, but twice the bed space
half the number of towels
twice the number of toothbrushes
zero people already up and dressed, who will go out and bring in the newspaper
all the cherries, but no one to share

Date: 2011-07-10 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calendula-witch.livejournal.com
Aw. I know. :/

Date: 2011-07-10 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aberwyn.livejournal.com
Aww, indeed.

If nothing else maybe we can do an LJ auction to get ticket money to bring him back. I'll donate, for sure.

Date: 2011-07-10 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com
Thanks. Let's hope I get a job soon, though. :-)

Date: 2011-07-10 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helblonde.livejournal.com
Aw, shucks, that's no fun.

Date: 2011-07-10 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darcyjavanne.livejournal.com
This is why math is bad. Hugs!

A geometry too

Date: 2011-07-10 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldenmug.livejournal.com
Once upon a long time ago, I was in class where I was the only person in a permanent relationship, except the tutor. We were looking at "Tristram Shandy" (IIRC) where he comments that when your bed partner is away you start sleeping diagonally across the bed. I said, "Funny, that's just what happens to me." Odd looks all round, except from the tutor - "Me too."

I never worked out whether it was an attempt to pretend that that bed was, in fact just as full as it ever was, or a vain attempt to find the something (leg, when your feet are cold - do feet ever get cold in California?) which must, surely, just have retreated right to the other side of the bed.

Re: A geometry too

Date: 2011-07-11 12:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com
Good point. We fill the space that they leave behind.

Re: A geometry too

Date: 2011-07-11 09:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shewhomust.livejournal.com
Oddly, I don't; I stay on my half of the bed. Sometimes I let my teddy bear join me, just as a place marker.

But I don't mind eating more than my share of cherries...

Date: 2011-07-11 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] christymarx.livejournal.com
That's practically a zen koan.

Like!

Date: 2011-07-11 02:24 am (UTC)

Date: 2011-07-11 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahnegabs.livejournal.com
I was married to the same man for 31 years. He's been gone now for nearly 24, and I still feel that way.

Date: 2011-07-11 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iisaw.livejournal.com
To heck with flying cars, you need teleportation!

Date: 2011-07-11 05:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-07-12 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seachanges.livejournal.com
*hugs* I know just how that feels.

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