Life Ain't Fair or Is It?

Last month one of our citizens passed on. His name was Guido Pharr and him and his wife ran a little Italian restaurant out on Harper Lake Road. They were open only Thursday through Sunday for lunch and supper, but they had a real good business. When Guido died we all expected that his wife, Maydelle, would keep it open. However, there was a fly in the ointment that none of us knew a thing about. Guido and Maydelle never bothered to get hitched. And what's worse Guido had a wife and kids living in New Orleans. The kids are all grown and never were told a thing about Guido's new home or new live-in partner. It seems the wife was happy to receive a little money each month and had made no effort to get a divorce. With him dead and the dollars halted she found a lawyer and was awarded the restaurant. The problem: she can't cook and has no business sense. Yesterday, we found out she has moved in with Maydelle and they plan to operate the restaurant together. They decided to open six days a week so me and Dorothy ate there last night and I'll have to say the food was better than ever. I reckon they figured out how to deal with their little problem.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle

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