Discarding necessities..!

MANY years ago, while still a bachelor I was invited to the home of a friend who'd just got married. 'But you're just married!' I said, knowing the evening would be more of drinking and loud talk, 'You need to spend time with your wife! I'll visit you when you both have settled down!'

'I can never give up my friends Bob, they're as necessary to me as bread to a hungry man!' I went over and found I wasn't the only one invited, he'd also called his office colleagues, friends, and train buddies and we ended up having a ball! A bachelor ball! 'Where's your wife?' we asked him after a while. 'She's in the bedroom sleeping, said she wasn't used to male company!'

It didn't trouble us about what she was used to or not used to and soon his pad became a regular place for our parties with dinner made by his never to be seen wife, laid out for us on the table. One day there was no dinner. 'Sorry guys, she left! Said either it was her or you guys!' 'So?' we asked, looking at him defiantly.

'I can never give up my friends,' he cried, 'But I miss her! What do I do?' Being young we were quite irritated with her for what she'd done, but I thought of her when I read 'The Mysterious Island' by Jules Verne: In his novel Verne tells of five men who escape a Civil War prison camp by hijacking a hot air balloon. Slowly, watching their homeland disappear on the horizon, they wonder how much longer...

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