A Change Of Verbs: After Dinner Conversation, #22
By Tom Teti
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Synopsis - A middle-aged professor changes his life by changing his verbs.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
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A Change Of Verbs - Tom Teti
A Change Of Verbs
After Dinner Conversation Series
A CHANGE OF VERBS CAN be a boon to a man’s life. Such was the thought that seized Simon McCalla in midbite of his double-toasted English muffin. It was Friday, precisely 7:52 AM by the clock on the range.
I said, what time is it?
yelled his wife from the closet. She rummaged for something.
Are you there? What in creation are you doing?
Sorry,
he said. Seven fifty-two, ah, three.
I can’t hear you.
Her bark was muffled by the winter coats. She appeared in the doorway to the kitchen, pulling up her pantyhose and pulling down a slip under her skirt. Her legs were still sturdy. What good does it do me to ask the time if I have to come in here to hear you?
Uh, seven fifty-three, ah, four.
Yes, I see that, now. I have a meeting at the hospital with the Chief of Surgery. He's an idiot but a punctual one.
She shook her head, inhaled through her nose and went back for a jacket. What’s the temperature?
Simon, back to his English muffin, twisted in his chewing to get a read on the thermometer mounted on the side of the shady window. Sixty-two,
he replied, and added his traditional caveat, but this thermometer is unreliable, it’s outside, you know, and in the shade.
Did you hear the weather?
his wife demanded to know from deep within the same rack of coats.
Sorry.
He chewed. Do you want the radio on? Carol?
She muttered along in such a way that he could not quite be certain whether she had heard him or not. I’m cold now, I just don’t know if it will stay that way... Oh, I’ll just wear this.
She emerged from the closet with a short, camel hair jacket. She bustled into the kitchen, dropped it onto the stool in front of which sat her rapidly chilling toaster waffles, and went to the powder room putting on dangling pearl earrings which he knew had been in her hand since she left the bedroom.
Would it be too much to wait for me to eat one of these mornings?
You...
He paused. I can never tell if you are actually wanting to eat or not,
he said, thinking of her ritual two bites at the counter, standing up, and tossing the rest of