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When I send her emails with links and later ask if she read them, she sometimes says yes, but when I ask her questions or start a discussion about the content, it becomes quite clear that maybe she just read the title or the first line or looked at the picture or said to her work friends, “Look, another email from Linsey. Watch me delete it without even opening it.”
Scissor toes
She works in a library, so when she calls me from work, she speaks in hushed tones which, coupled …

If Linsey tells Janie not to put wet things on the wood furniture because it might damage it, Janie shouldn’t take it personally, like Linsey is really trying to say “Stop ruining everything we have with your wet towels and your cat that pees all over the place” because, really, Linsey was just sayin’.
Linsey wasn’t looking to debate the circumstances in which the towel was originally taken from the shelf in the closet or who used it to wipe their face after five hours of yard work on Saturday afternoon …

It should have been obvious that things were taking a turn for the worse when, after Janie had been gone for a week in California, the first thing I said upon her return was “I’m really upset because you keep leaving things around, like a little trail all over the house, with shit on the floor and on the bed and in the sink, and I just spent a week cleaning up and putting things away!” No Hi, I missed you, nice to see you, take off your shirt. …

DON’T YOU EAT THOSE SCOOPS!