I needed this reminder too. I recently confused flu with flue. Apparently the guy I was writing about had a chimney related ilness.
For some reason I find the I/myself confusion particularly irritating. If you wouldn't say "Myself went shopping," why would you say, "Tom and myself went shopping,"? <-- Did I get the punctuation right there? That question mark somehow looks out of place.
Thank you for reading so carefully and taking the time to comment.
I can see how my description of his hiring could be misleading. Sorry about that. Sometimes I forget that the reader is reading my story and not my mind.
As far as the specuations go, I did mean for them to sound ridiculous. I was imagining people getting the story second or third hand and not knowing all the facts and then adding their own comments.
You painted an image which I will have a hard time forgetting! I don't blame Brad for laughing but sharing the photo with coworkers was taking it much too far. I'm glad it ended well.
I was never a huge fan of Valentine's day either but I have to admit that it was rather fun in elementary school. Whao can say no to a one hour cupcake break at the end of the school day. By high school the fun is pretty much over. I loved this story and I can't say that there was anything missing from it but I still feel like it could be part of something larger. It reminded me of some of the stories that get posted one chapter at a time. I can't help wondering what happend to the straight man after that evening.
This is not exactly what I expected for Vlaentine's Day but I think that is what I liked about it. There was something about the nameless young man that made me feel uneasy but I couldn't quite figure out if he was good, evil, or something in between.
This story made me sad but on another level I was happy for the family. Not everyone can deal with a serious ilness with such grace. My relatives would continue arguing long after they forgot each other's names and what there was to agree about. I also like that you told this story from the point of view of the patient who was loosing his memory.