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August 1953

I'm Peculiar

I'M a peculiar individual in more ways than one but particularly in the sense that I think I'm about the only person that has troubles of the sort that are peculiar to myself only. For example: other guys' wives might not understand them but mine understands me less than any other woman understands any other guy. Bills come to me in a way that they come to no other man living. I have more chores about the house than any other guy, and my wife is always finding walls to wash, screens to hang and ceilings that need painting, just to mention a few things. Naturally my thinking got all fouled up and whilst performing, very reluctantly, some of these various duties and trying to avoid paying my just bills, I started in taking inventories on everybody else I knew, excepting myself.

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