Repost: (True Stories) The Flaming Chef

 

 

I had just gotten fired, and my mother was giving me a pep talk.

            “I ran into that friend of yours the other day.  You remember Kathy Winston from high school?  She’s just a few years older than you and she’s a real grown up.”

            I was approaching thirty and I felt as though she’d asked if I needed to go potty.

            And of course I had just gotten fired.
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