Lesbian Female / 33
I'm The 'Wife' Of The Man Who Took Me With Him
I've told this to a friend and she felt insulted on behalf of all women. Sorry. Life sometimes comes at you, and you end up down a path you didn't expect. It's not about women.
I lost my job. I spent the savings I had. I was evicted. Sleeping in my car was embarrassing and uncomfortable. I was hungry. I had one five dollar bill and 76 cents. I stood in front of the sandwich cooler, nothing was five dollars and 76 cents. I was out of gas. I cried. I couldn't help it. I cried like a God damned woman.
A man, he came up to me and said he'd be happy to share a sandwich with me. Fifty fifty. That brought it below five dollars and 76 cents. I drank water and he shared his chips with me. He told me to follow. We went into a building, the elevator, into an office, down the hall to see a woman. Give this woman a job, give her a hundred dollars, get a room for her at the Paradise and bring her back when she's presentable.
The woman bought me some clothes, an advance. I got a job coding accounts payable. The Paradise was paid in advance for the week. The woman told me ignore him. He was always doing things like that.
As a woman I was not proud. Sleeping on a bed with money in my pocket was better than any Christmas I ever had as a child. I used the telephone to call my parents. They came out to take me home.
When he showed up and stood in the door of my father's house he said "Rachel I've made up my mind, you are coming with me". A woman sometimes has to follow the path she's given. Even if that means she washes a man's underwear.
I lost my job. I spent the savings I had. I was evicted. Sleeping in my car was embarrassing and uncomfortable. I was hungry. I had one five dollar bill and 76 cents. I stood in front of the sandwich cooler, nothing was five dollars and 76 cents. I was out of gas. I cried. I couldn't help it. I cried like a God damned woman.
A man, he came up to me and said he'd be happy to share a sandwich with me. Fifty fifty. That brought it below five dollars and 76 cents. I drank water and he shared his chips with me. He told me to follow. We went into a building, the elevator, into an office, down the hall to see a woman. Give this woman a job, give her a hundred dollars, get a room for her at the Paradise and bring her back when she's presentable.
The woman bought me some clothes, an advance. I got a job coding accounts payable. The Paradise was paid in advance for the week. The woman told me ignore him. He was always doing things like that.
As a woman I was not proud. Sleeping on a bed with money in my pocket was better than any Christmas I ever had as a child. I used the telephone to call my parents. They came out to take me home.
When he showed up and stood in the door of my father's house he said "Rachel I've made up my mind, you are coming with me". A woman sometimes has to follow the path she's given. Even if that means she washes a man's underwear.
