Susie And Her Unusual Disorder
Susie’s head was filled with thoughts of what was wrong. First, she was not tall enough. On the other hand, Tara, her neighbor was five foot eight. She could still wear heels. She could play basketball successfully. Susie had a bad case of next door neighbor envy.
Susie’s grass was filled with bare patches. It had weeds too. Her husband never took care of it cause he spent all his spare time cutting wood with his new echo chainsaw. All the trees at the lot line looked fantastic. The grass looked second rate.
Tara’s husband cut the grass every weekend. He trimmed it and edged it. It looked fantastic. After he cut it, he watered it and fertilized it. Susie’s husband only cut theirs when it grew so high he was afraid they’d be fined.
Then Susie went to the grocery store. What did that Tara eat, she wondered. She is not too thin, but not too fat either. Susie looked down at her waistline in dismay. She did exercise but apparently not enough. Did Tara exercise, she wondered. Apparently she did.
Susie was so happy the day she and her husband bought a twin sleigh bed for their daughter. It was a soft white in French Provincial style and perfect for a little girls room. She called Tara to come over and see it. Tara complimented the bed highly and then they had coffee together. Of course, Susie thought Tara’s brand of coffee was better, but oh well at least she now had a sleigh bed for her daughter.
The next morning she and her daughter went over to Tara’s house for coffee. The girls (Tara had two daughters). Naturally she has twice as many daughters as me Susie thought to herself. The girls played and the mothers visited. They played dolls and video games. Aha, her girls have to share one video system Susie thought. The kids didn’t have any toy envy about that though.
After they left, Susie and her daughter chatted. The child told her that Tara’s two girl’s each had a sleigh bed in their room. Susie felt that old next door neighbor envy and it grew unbearable. She was glad Tara hadn’t bragged about it.
The next day, she took her daughter shopping at a big furniture store. Her daughter asked why they needed more furniture. She grew especially curious when they went to look at sleigh beds. She said she liked the one she had and didn’t want a different one. Susie responded by saying in a gruff voice that she was buying a sleigh bed for the spare room. It’s in case we have overnight company she told the little girl. By the next week, she too had two of the same style beds in her house. Tara had no clue how much next door neighbor envy Susie suffered from.