Thanks for Taking Out the Trash
This Thanksgiving, Elmer Fuller finally agrees to go on a trip with me.
But when I wake up in the hotel, I don't see him anywhere.
I spend the entire day desperately searching for him, only to stumble across a social media post from his first love.
It's a selfie of her and Elmer having a cozy family dinner with her parents. The caption reads, "Someone's finally meeting the parents on Thanksgiving night. Mom and Dad can stop pressuring me to get married now!"
Around her neck is the scarf my mother knitted for me before she passed.
I left a comment. "Stop using my things to flirt with my husband. Take the scarf off—you can have him."
Not long after, she posts an update.
The scarf is shredded into pieces and tossed into a dog bed, with the caption, "What trash—too filthy even for a dog!"
Elmer likes the post.