A Late (and Passive) Richard Variation

 

Martha is going to be so upset with me! I’m so late! I knew that I should have left earlier! And I just had to leave my wallet on my office desk! Ugh! Why am I so damn forgetful?...All the way to the damn bus stop and I forget my bloody wallet so I have to walk all the way back in the bloody blizzard…I shouldn’t tell her that I was late due to my forgetting my wallet…..I’ll tell her a meeting ran late….yes, I’ll say that the meeting about the merger went very well, but ran late….she’ll still complain…still scold that I should have left early to meet her on time; “Aren’t I important to you, Richard?” she’ll whine…..But it’ll be much more bearable than her lecture regarding my wallet….”You’re so damn forgetful, Richard!”, “You’ll send us to the cleaners, if you’re not more careful, Richard!”, “Is that what you want, Richard?”….