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- Author: Jennifer Crusie
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Liz
I moved in with my One True Love a month ago, sure that it was
going to be nothing but good times ahead. I was wrong. Here’s a tip
for those of you considering cohabitation: If the person you’re thinking of
sharing space with has Rogers Rules of Rangering up on the kitchen wall,
turn back now. It’s a sure bet that he’s gonna be a pre-dawn kind of guy.
Look, Vince knew before I moved into his diner that I do not greet the rosy
dawn with glad cries of joy. I’d spent plenty of nights and subsequent
mornings with him before moving in and I’d made that clear. And on this
particular Monday morning, the dawn wasn’t even rosy yet when the
pounding and the cracking and the crashing started.
Even while I was still groggy, I knew Vince was smashing drywall in
the addition he was adding to our diner. Nine months ago, he’d moved an
old fire-damaged Big Chef diner down to the banks of the Ohio River on a
flat-bed truck and had lived happily alone just outside of Burney, Ohio, in
its ten by thirty foot interior until we met three months ago and fell into a
fun series of one-night stands that ended over a month ago when we
decided we were ready to try living together, at which point he surprised me
by buying another Big Chef diner in even worse condition so there would
be room for me. Six hundred square feet. We were living large. And now
we were in a two-diner relationship that involved removing old drywall
before dawn and putting up new to make a bigger bedroom, not that he’d let
me help.
Part of the problem was that neither of us had thought about what a twodiner relationship might be, and we really didn’t want to talk about it, since
we were both allergic to the C word. Real commitment was right up there
with root canal for us: we knew it was probably somewhere ahead of us, but
let’s not think about that now.
As more drywall fell and I woke up completely, I began to think we
should have thought about that now. Possibly established some ground
rules, like no bashing drywall before nine AM. But we had bigger problems
than that. Like my efforts to be an equal partner in our two-diner life.
Vince and his buddies had moved the new old diner at right angles to
the end of the original diner to make an L-shaped floor plan, and then had
bolted the two together, cutting an opening between them, so his nice,
clean, white diner now had a dingy, dusty construction zone attached to it.
I’d tried to help pay for the second diner, but Vince had waved that away.
I
tried to help with the drywall, and he waved that away. I told him I’d pay
for the paint and drywall, but he waved that away, too. I’d said, “At least let
me furnish it,” and he’d said, “Why would we need furniture?”
Vince Cooper, a real mattress-on-the-floor kind of guy.
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