Twenty years after forming Assimilated Youth, all the members of the band had become shady accountants. Except Jimmy. But he was the drummer

It wasn’t fancy. He just wanted to show her another side of himself. Perhaps the true depth of his love. She said, But it’s a used condom.

She bumped into an old friend from high school. He was a mess. She felt better somehow. And then she met his wife and she felt better still.

She’s ready to leave him; she understands now. He just has to say the word, she thinks. He calls her new dress, Tremendous. And there it is.

He fell into the pothole but he felt comfortable inside it and contemplated making it his home, though only until he had to go the bathroom.

She reaches under the sheets and finds him gone. She walks to the bedroom window to see the car pulling out of the driveway. Wimp, she says

Dinner was over and he helped clear the table. And she misheard something nice he said. And she broke down and cried and he let himself out.