Here today, gone....
One of the drivers didn’t show up for work the other morning, it turned out his wife had died the day before; they say he found her when he got home from work. He was always having to take days of work to take her to the hospital or look after her on her bad days; I don’t know what was wrong with her. Whenever he talked about it I sensed it was wearing him down.Last year he bought a new car with some of the money his wife had inherited, presumably from a parent. All the time I’ve known him he has driven an old beat up little car that was economical on fuel. He was economical with everything; the weekly shopping, holidays, everything. He just tried to live within his means, then, when they came into a bit of money, I think they just allowed themselves one or two overdue treats. Even then he didn’t go overboard; the car he bought was just a newer version of his small, cheap-to-run, old one.
Even though his wife wasn’t in good health, no one was expecting her to just drop dead. Still, their modest windfall must have made life a bit more cheerful for them before she went. He called in work today to see the manager, he doesn’t look very cheerful now.
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So will he be selling off the car