The Best Day of My Life
by oldgrump
Copyright© 2018 by oldgrump
Flash Story: A Thanksgiving Story
Tags: Fiction
A quick Thanksgiving Story
Thanks to George5 for the editing. As always all mistakes are mine alone
It was a strange day; it was a day that I would never forget. In some ways, it was the worst day of my life, but it was a day I am glad I lived.
The day, Thanksgiving Day was supposed to be gathering of family. It didn’t work out that way. First, the turkey that had been in the freezer for a week and then in the fridge for two days did not smell right when I took it out of the fridge. Then when I went to the 24-hour grocery for a pre-cooked ham, my car got a flat, and the spare was also flat. Then AAA said that someone would be there in 2 hours – 2 hours! When I called my wife to tell her, she screamed that it was my fault. The car got fixed, and I got the ham, it was the last they had, and it was probably 3 times the size we would need.
I got it home, got an apology, and a kiss. I put the ham in the oven to warm through. Then my parents called and said they had to cancel. That left me to deal with ‘The In-Laws From Hell’ alone. They liked my parents, me not at all. Even my wife realized that her parents were unreasonably unjust about me.
They had tried to set up Sarah with her dad’s partner’s son; and when Sarah slapped the crap out of the kid when he got handsy, they had a big blow up and then she met me.
Now before we go too far, I am Chuck Alanson. I am 32; I am a former stockbroker who has become a Certified Financial Planner. I handle a select few clients, what most people would call ‘Trust Fund Babies’. I make a high six-figure income. I also day trade, and I have been very successful at it. I have been married to Sarah for nine years, and we have two great kids. Jack our son (named after my Father-in-law) is 6 and Sara our daughter is 3. All of this is not good enough.
It doesn’t help that the handsy bastard was caught raping a 13-year-old girl and the partner sold his part of the business to finance the son’s defense. The new partner then sold his share to a big conglomerate. Sarah’s father was forced to sell to the same group and had to retire long before he wanted to. Never mind that he made more money from the sale that he can ever spend, it was like a child died.
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