Husband Lays on Couch All Day Ignoring Wife’s Pleas for Help until Ambulance Takes Her Away — Story of the Day
|An unemployed man with a successful wife spends all his time lazing around and refuses to do housework unless he is paid, until the day she falls seriously ill.
Richard Franklin was angry at the world. He’d been a successful travel agent, but with the onset of the COVID pandemic, his business had gone bankrupt. Now Richard lay on his couch all day playing video games, drinking beer, and eating crisps.
Fortunately for Richard, his wife Sharon, a software developer, had more work than ever and it was thanks to her that they hadn’t lost their house and were able to live comfortably. Unfortunately for Sharon, she was overworked and had no help from Richard…
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She asked Richard for help, and in return got a blank stare. “Help? How?” Richard asked. “I don’t know the first thing about software!”
“I don’t mean help with the software, Richard!” Sharon exclaimed, “I mean help around the house! You could take out the trash, vacuum, dust…”
Richard puffed out his chest. “So now that I’m unemployed, you turn me into the cleaning lady? In that case, you have to pay me!”
The people who do their best for you deserve your best.
“Pay you?” gasped Sharon. “For the things I do for YOU free of charge?”
“Yes,” said Richard arrogantly, “Fifteen dollars an hour is fair, I think!” Sharon looked at her husband with tears in her eyes, shook her head, and walked back into her little home office.
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Richard lay back on the sofa and scratched his stomach. Darned if he’d work for free! His mother had warned him when he married Sharon that she was one of those women who’d want to control her man, make him her slave.
Richard was no one’s slave. If Sharon wanted housework from him, she’d better pay! Of course, it never occurred to Richard that his wife was killing herself working to support him, and giving her a helping hand was no more than his duty!
Nope! Richard felt that the world had been unjust to him, and having Sharon take care of him was balancing the scales of justice. Then one day, his best friend announced that he was getting married (again) and the bachelor’s party was in Las Vegas…
That evening when Sharon came home, Richard actually got off his couch to greet her. “Sharon,” Richard said. “David is getting married, and the guys are going to Las Vegas for the send-off next week. I’m going to need two thousand...