Yes. I went in thinking salad stuff and saw stuff that was a lot less money somewhere else. I’m sure I could have made a lot of soup, but without buying a lot of other stuff it was going to be pretty boring soup.

Sure, like I said, if you will cook anything. And also if you will eat anything. I’m not allergic, I just know that I’d rather not do it.

These tend to be expensive and give me stuff that I don’t want. But it is a cool idea if you have the money and can cook anything.

The potato thing is weird.

I am not familiar with that?  Is it good?  Should I watch it?

I never eat a toxic potato in front of her (unless it comes with a meal I paid for myself and it doesn’t look that bad to me, and then I just hope that she doesn’t see it). But if the chicken comes with cheese on it, they can’t just remove the cheese and so sometimes they just leave it and I eat that, or the broccoli…

No, when you say that you have an allergy or whatever, you order basic stuff, and they need to bring it out as you ordered it. And we go to the same places over and over again, so she’s usually ordered whatever it is before and they’ve done it correctly if they are paying attention. If we go to a new place and she…

I’m not sure what you’re asking me.

She gets to dine twice a month because she paid to do that. The rest of the time she is eating boiled chicken. And I don’t see what that has to do with you eating a sandwich.

Okay, well, it’s like this. For a while I had money to go out once in a while, and I got invited to go out with the group. And then after I got used to sitting at the cool kids table, I didn’t have money for a while. And I just on and off either have money or don’t. But I was still going out with them sometimes but…

I don’t know what that means, but if it were a problem doing it over again they should just get it right the first time.

She likes the area, she’s just having some problems, and she doesn’t like her options for fixing them. And I guess there are some neighbors she doesn’t like and some stuff new management is doing that she doesn’t like. Moving in general is a hassle, but she talks about it once in a while. And then she won’t move into…

Okay, none of my business, but it’s my understanding that she had a therapist for years. Getting a therapist doesn’t change whatever you have going on that you don’t like about work. That’s life. Sometimes you don’t like your job. Sometimes you don’t like where you live. And sometimes you’re just stuck with it. And…

So, you’re suggesting meds?

Sure. We were easy to replace. But none of us were over this. On the other hand, two managers were replaced for giving us other headaches. That we were easy to replace has nothing to do with what I said or the temperature of a room, and some of the other stuff you said sounds really nuts.

What did that have to do with anything?

We’re good.

She’s got a job, and I don’t. If we live that long, she’s going to retire and have money some stuff she wants, and I’m probably going to be homeless. She has issues, but you don’t just up and move and quit your job.

Thank you.

Because we’re in the same club for twenty years and in another club before that. And then my dad died about a month after hers.