The milkman.

[Irene Sieders]

He told me that his wife had left him and had run off with the milkman.

I found this pretty incredulous, because it sounded like part of an old joke that had been around forever and where do you find a milkman delivering milk door to door anymore?

He said it had happened in the early seventies and that as a result of it, he had stopped using all dairy products and only took artificial creamer in his coffee and never had whipped cream or ice cream with his piece of pie anymore.

I watched him raise his coffee cup to his mouth with both hands and noticed that he still wore a wedding band around his left ring finger and I asked him about it.

"Oh yes," he said, "My wife and I never got divorced, because the milkman was catholic and refused to divorce the mother of his six children and visited her every weekend with two bags of groceries and six bottles of milk."

He drank the last bit of his coffee with clearly visible enjoyment and then he added, with an apologetic smile on his face, "My wife died of a stroke last week and I have been taking real cream in my coffee ever since her funeral and I had forgotten how good it tasted."

[Edward V. Strand]

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[Irene Sieders]

Oh Sandra, it's probably for the best that he didn't, but it is so sweet of you to tell me about it. You should write a story about that. It has a lot of potential.

[Sandra Davies]

This story reminded me of when I was about 14 and our milkman was very dishy indeed - during the summer holidays I used to get up really early, put on my bikini and do my best to sunbathe convincingly in our still shady garden until he arrived ... he never did show any signs of running of with me though!

[Irene Sieders]

Thanks. It's going to be a short story. Coming to you soon.

[lifeisbeautiful03]

i agree with Matthew Hickerson this can be gd short story... nicely written

[Irene Sieders]

Thank you, Matthew. Maybe I should start a competition, "How to make a short story out of The Milkman." I would compete in it myself.

[Matthew Hickerson]

I think this would make for an amazing short story. Wonderfully written.

[Irene Sieders]

Lydia, milkmen need to always be young available man, is my opinion and we should have them back again, It would save me many trips to the store. I drink a lot of milk myself.

Kim, real life is stranger than fiction, you wouldn't believe the things I know. If I told you, you would say, "No, it can't be." Thank you for the nice compliment. I appreciate it very much.

[Lydia]

Very interesting story Nora;my parents use to have a milkman,but he was an old man.Also is nice part
of divorce and last sentence;beautiful; I like drink milk.
Ciao Nora

[Kim Soles]

The beauty of real life. Real people with completely un-real lives. Told in 6s exact with your gift of writing.