Miss B, Soldier Boy and The Wife

We're not in Kansas anymore --

Or um -actually we are.  In Kansas.  Ft. Riley, Kansas.

In case you've forgotten.

And Ft. Riley, Kansas is surrounded by . . .

absolutely nothing.

Except for that little Kansas State University . . but that's in the opposite direction of Miss B's, where I'm going to dinner.

I'm just driving out in the middle of no where.  In the middle of a lot of corn fields, actually.  Then I get to this little community of older homes --some of them quite lovely.   At the end of the street and on the corner sat the house I was looking for.  Where Miss B and her soldier boy lived.  Together.  Not married.

I don't even remember what we ate for dinner that night.  I was just in shock over what I saw once inside.  Well you know, this was way before the TV show Hoarders but it would have been the perfect house for such a show.  But it wasn't just that --stacks and stacks of stuff everywhere --the house was like --under renovation or something.  The kitchen appliances were oddly stationed in the middle of the room.  Its hard to describe but it was just weird.

But not as weird as Miss B and her soldier boy feeling comfortable enough with me to spill their guts.  Air their dirty laundry, dark secrets and stuff.  Because you see, soldier boy was married but not to Miss B, obviously or she'd be Mrs. B.  And soldier boy was married to his first --or um, current wife for a very long time --over 15 years.  Yeah, soldier boy was much older than Miss B. 

So as the story goes, soldier boy didn't want to divorce his wife because she'd get 1/2 of his military retirement and he just wasn't going to let that happen.  And Miss B was okay with that.  She just wanted to be alone with soldier boy and no matter really, the fact that he was someone else's husband.  And the wife?  I don't know.  That was all pretty weird too.  Apparently she only really wanted solider boys' money --and retirement --so she was perfectly happy living without her husband just as you know, the money kept coming.  And here was the big master plan.  Because I asked Miss B and soldier boy like --how they saw this playing out and see they were smart.  The plan was this:  wait for Mrs. soldier boy to find a boyfriend of her own and fall in love and want to get married and thus, find the need to first be divorced.  That's right folks, that was the big master plan.

And even I thought that was a really really stupid plan.

And living situation.

But for some reason Miss B and soldier boy really liked me.  I dunno how I attracted these people to me --like when Chief really liked me.

And I gotta tell you, with all else that was going on in my life, it was just nice to be liked.