All Comments on 'Dancing Lessons'

I visited the “French Ex-Canadian” part of NH, and they are true bilinguals. They use whichever language’s word fits what they mean while using the other language as the sentence. And they are damn proud of it!

Nice to read a happy story.

Had a smile on my face most of the way through this, nice fun read

Reread for me, I've rated it before, but never commented for whatever reason.

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This story had me smiling almost from the get-go. Although there's a little bit of heartache, he quickly hoists the cheaters with their own petards, and quickly comes to realize how much better his life is without his shrew of a wife.

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The resultant romance with Bubbles is sweet, and the patios was endearing and gives your stories a unique voice.

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In a sea of suffering and pain, your story is a bright spark of happiness. 5*

widowedidiot, your name is certainly fitting. I see you don't allow any feedback, that's telling. That tells me that you like to insult and demean other writers without being able to handle any criticism yourself. The true mark of a spineless coward.

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2nd re-read, Top Shelf!

I know your explanation of the 'Awchee' thing, but I was reminded of Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker on Normal Lear's 'All in the Family' when whining to Carrol O'Conner as her husband Archie Bunker:

"And that's what I'm going to call you!" she shrilled after giving her malt a big slurp. "Archibald, huh? Awchee!"

"Aw God don't," he protested.

"Aw, but Awchee!" she teased.

11/10 Meatheads!!!!!

Thanks for such a good and fun story. Loved it!

Lawdy me, Cha'! I heah muh Momma's voice in ya writin, yeah.

Such a beautiful story about beautiful people. I adore your writing style.

Problem with BBW is they are all over-weight. Story is about a whole bunch of over weight women and the men lying to them to get them to get in bed with them. what a low life........... and this story celebrates all big fat women willing to cheat to get bedded. oh how wonderful. And they can dance and jiggle their blubber and shake it where everyone can watch, oh yeah baby..........

Revisit after a while, I'm not in the best place mentally, this put a smile on my face.

Not bad yeah. Good writing yeah. Always a fan yeah. See you next time yeah.

If I live to be 100 I will not understand why women fall for the lines that slime gives them just because the slime is younger and they feel insecure but. In balance however i love when they end up like Mr. Awchee wife. Good story.

More and more, i am seeing stories with creative reactions to the wife being caught bouncing in bed with another man. This one was a subtle shot across the bow in the end. Lovely outcome. And loved the fact that he didn't coerce Bubbles into losing weight. That was awesome.

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@sbrooks103x

Preface

When the Preface lists all the reasons why I shouldn't bother reading, who am I to argue.

Bye! -

I doubt you were missed.

Good story, just a little short on the ending.

Bon sang, dur d'arriver au bout de cette....

As always a very nice tale. Thanks.

He did better than BTB. He moved on and no longer cares about her.

That hurts worse than any legal burning would.

Jacqueline didn't need punishment. She torched her own life. Odd that being together dating or married for 29 years she up and gets seduced with Brian. Worse was the brazen attitude aof she will do it and Jack will accept it. Opening scenes where Brian gets c*ck blocked literally and figuratively are funny. Yet Jacqueline still persisted. Ultimately flaming out. But her attitude showed no respect. Hard to imagine that she would be faithful all those years and then not only cave to Brian the serpent but also be open about her plans in the face of discovery. That is weird.

Loved it! Killed myself laughing when he told the office gossip he did nude modelling.

Keep them coming, please!!!

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You need not BTB if she self-destructs, which is rare, BTW, unless her behavior is due to mental or physical issues. Sure, she was at fault, but I felt sorry for her. It was her life that was ruined.

I'm not worrying about BTB as, in many ways, he did by finding a new love & being happy. Some stories it works. However for me personally, I had some difficulty reading this & keeping who's who & what's what. And for that, 2 stars. Bob

Great Story JimBob44 ! Keep writing !!! 5 Stars

It is still a great read again this year. JD

As ever (I've read this before) a nice heartwarming read, Thanks again.👍😇😻😍

Dude, burnage is in the eye of the beholder. Anyone who doesn't see this as burnt bitch has never been lonely his ex will be burning for yrs yet nicely done as I have come to expect from you.

Very good and he did BTB as he is very happy with a new family that love him while she is becoming an old, bitter shrew.

Love your stories, yeah...

The introduction and revisiting of a multitude of characters, many never practically introduced, made this a hard read. (Even though I did enjoy the story, overall.). Four stars.

JPB

Thankyou for the many chuckles. Wonderful sense of humour.

Great story!

Lovely story, far from perfect super body characters, but that made it even more endearing. Solid 5*

Damn good story telling. Even though it was a bit hard for a "Yankee" to understand at first. Then I started to get into the flow of the authors writing and really enjoyed his style. Will read more of your stories yeah.

I have read most of your stories and love every one. Love the dialog, character development, humor and sex. You can flat write, yeah. Please keep writing!

I gave up 1/4 way through the story. Anyone not from Louisiana would have a difficult time logically following the dialog and story flow. **.

Having had my own cheating wife, you did very well with this story. Her lover found that this busy cuckold has a very violent side. I'm not just an oil businessman, but I also work on my oil field. Once he got out of the hospital, they moved 2 states away.

Pathetic MC gets a package deal with a babymaker....

Thanks for writing this for my enjoyment, may I say that you were successful at your mission. 5 *****

Love your stories. Kind of biased because I've lived on the New Orleans area (Gretna) for 32 years after coming here for Navy Assignment. Would enjoy visiting DeGarde but settle for experieces in New Iberia, Lafayette and Opelousas. Please don't ever stop writing yeah! Mega kudos!! Five stars!!!

Ditto, Love This! "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" should be a truism not a proverb, as it is VERY true. Why waste your time on a waste of a person when you can put it into bettering your own life?

I only read about a page and one half. Found it almost impossible to read.

Love this

In 1640, George Herbert compiled a book of "Outlandish Proverbs". One of these was "Living well is the best revenge". Just thought you'd like to know.

I love this story. Michelle is in the top 5 female characters on this site.

Anon directly below this: That's how they talk. For real.

Take out the absurd number of "yeahs", and this would have been two pages shorter.

Got told so often that I had it wrong with my ex in the rear view mirror and no comebacks or revenge, now I know this was the right way after all. Moving right along, happy 80km away and a new partner 40 years younger. She drives, lots of Australia to see still

Almost a romantic comedy. Great job.

Cute and happy story , enjoyed it very much.

Thank you

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Second reading, still the same 5 stars.

Thanks for sharing your work! Yeah.

Great tale. As always enjoyable characters. Enjoyed Bubbles and Awchee's Romantic Dance of love.

Basically, Jacqueline's cheating on Jack was because she no longer respected him despite Jack being a good and faithful husband. She felt entitled to a younger lover and felt Jack would just have to put up with it. Certainly no love or respect in Jacqueline except for herself.

Thank you very much for this story.

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Sorry I disagree with you. The Arch is the second best quarter back the whole day ever had. CALL ME THE BREEZE.

His revenge so to speak was 1) not to put up with her sh!t. 2) moving on and not looking back. It was a nice twist talking to the lover to try and find out why.

Excellent, definitely my sense of humour 5* no contest

Excellent.

This is a story that makes you feel good inside. Ole Jack didn't try to burn anyone nor did he have to because the word picture he drew did it in a good but sneaky way without throwing napalm at the rather unsavory ex-wife.

I'll go with Archie being one hell of a good quarterback but his boys were pretty good too!

11/10 Malts!!!!!

This story was pretty long with no justification. Only interesting part of this story was that the wife wanted some strange and he stopped it and divorced her. How he got everything and everyone together before she could even do anything is beyond me. No job is worth your wife or your family. So why didn't he learn how to dance while still with her? Why didn't he take her out instead of sitting down watching the Saints, it couldn't be the job, for how did he have the time to take dancing lessons and court someone else? Why did it take four pages to write what he could have done in one page? Most of it didn't make any sense.

really nice story, but ask her, its never her fault. lol

As usual with most of your stories, cute, humorous, to the point. 5 stars.

I liked this very much, he didn't put up with her shit, moved on and got back to being happy and found love again. GO JimBob44!

My problem with this story is similar to most of these: she cheats. He divorced her. The, out of "loving consideration,refuses to out her relatives and kids. Argues they shiuld respect mom because she's mom-totally marginalizing the kids feeling, concurrently tacitly giving quasi approval for cheating.

In real life he no longer whos her any consideration. As for the BS of "closure", hearing her side of it-total non-sense.

The why does not matter. He had two choices only. Be a cuck or be a man and move on. The hurt is real but does not need enhancement by sticking around.

Talking about changes nothing. She cheated. Period.

Well, from the comments I can see this is not everyone's cup of tea... Personally I like it a lot. Slowly reading through all authors stories... over 300 so taking a while but enjoying every one!

Can honestly say at least there was no way in hell to feel sorry for Jacqueline, if she were to be wrecked with guilt, remorse, giving up on life. With how much of a bitch she was, it was easy to feel good about bye bye.

If you know the generic problems of your writing, you should work on correcting them instead of being an arrogant fuck, you know, for small things like cohesion and such...

Damn I like dis persons writing ! yeah

Not so sure about the patois - but you can't please all of the people all of the time. I did love the pace of the story and the simple plotting, very enjoyable.

Good romance.

Nice story, well told. Let it be known im a Yankee and am not fluent in Cajun French, yet i loved the change in dialog, creative and smart. Clever story line and i must say, thank you, y'all.

Loved the patois. Really gave the characters deeper personality.

Can't stop with just one JimBob story. This is another stupid cheating wife losing everything. Perfect.

Cajun? Ebonics? English is english. I'm not really a grammar snob, but I couldn't get past the distraction.

MOMINER64METE, really? Coon ass?? Fuck, grow up and get a grip. You sound like you have some severe mental issues and really should get a friend to explain the stories to you in a way that you'll understand.

This guy never misses.

Way to go Jim Bob! George Herbert said that living well is the best revenge. Bien fait!

I loved this story. I have to tell a little story to explain why I gave it 5 stars. I was born in Orange Texas, but my Dad and all his siblings were born in Louisiana and spoke Louisiana French before they spoke English. When they went to public school if they spoke French they were punished so they would never teach us kids because the teachers had taught them it was a gutter language. But when my dad wanted to say something they didn't want us kids hear they would speak in French. When my dad was talking to anyone around my home town you could never hear any trace of a Cajun accent in his voice but when we went over to visit his cousins around St. Martinville, Catahoula or New Iberia his accent would get real heavy but he never did it on purpose it just became natural. Now when I go back to Texas to visit after 53 years in upstate NY everyone says I talk like a Yankee but after I have been down home, yes even though I was 17 when I left and have lived up her for 53 years it's still home, but after a few weeks there and I come back north everyone ask me why I'm talking with a Texas accent. It's just this story with Jack slipping back into some French terms and accents that reminded me of a simpler time in my life, and how easy we transition to what is natural.

Cute story , thank you .

Great story but...

... ever heard of Drew Brees

As my now wife told me about my ex wife "the very best revenge truly is living well and being happy". Add in a splash of being a good dad and there’s a bonus of HER mother telling her what a good parent I am rofl.

I'm actually reading your stories with a Cajun accent. Takes a little longer but really gets the feeling in there.

Seems the more of your stories I read, the more 5 stars I give. It's probably just a coincidence....

Excellent and fun to read. Love the Cajun accent.

A spicy concoction, great work! And my Uncle was a Cajun, you nailed the dialect, yeah. Got to say, I really like this, me.

This one is going to be a classic!

Again, one of JB44's good ones. Pulled a stealth double play on Brian and Jaquline, and got Bubbles as a reward. All good.

I’m a BTB man but I liked this story

Great story favorite and enjoyed.

Nuff said

I found the dialect fun!! I am not a Southerner but also enjoyed Twain, and Faulkner's dialect's, they are difacult but good reads, you have to think to understand what is being said. That is also a draw of Shakespeare difacult to read. Now this work is not up to their stander by a long way but was a fun read.

When you complain about grammar, it’s best not to make any spelling mistakes in your own post.

Nice story JB. I’ll admit the dialects in your stories were kind of difficult to get used to at first, but once I got used to it, it made the stories even better.

Another great one from JB44. One of the best BTBs possible. Just let them know they're history and you don't care.

Visit Cajun country, dumbass, and even you will be able to figure out the "yeah". Oh, also, even us backward southerners know that " pour" the adjective is spelled "poor"!

Oh, yeah, piss pour grammar.

You think your imaginary name Chewy is farfetched? Many years ago, a young Latino guy who helped load (at some pick-up point I've forgotten, but south from here) the semi truck I was driving was named Chewy. Struck me so odd, out of many names at many pick-ups and deliveries, may be the only one I remember.

Anyway, there have been other southern names that sound peculiar to northern ears -- I would guess moreso in Cajun Louisiana.

You did get that Mealy is nickname for Amelia?

JimBob, how can I get your stories read when I keep getting interrupted? Like when Jack told that whopper to coworker Jill about doing nude modeling (at 50? years old?!!) at art class at U.L.D., and I have to stop to laugh. When I'm through laughing (I think), the next morning Jack's lady coworkers are averting eyes or blushing (imagining him nude, modeling) -- and I have to interrupt reading to laugh some more. At least, when I was left smiling and chuckling after the end, that was not an interruption.

Paul in Oklahoma

PS. Thanks for brightening the start to my day.

Well done. The author's style is unique, and the story was balanced. The husband used his head in dealing with his cheating wife. The wife was always blaming others for the problems in her life she created herself. That's why she was so easily seduced. The husband's new love interest was a sweet character. I mean this in the most positive way when I say this is a cute story. *****

This was not really a BTB but very enjoyable none the less. Thanks for writing it.

....and idioms, colloquialism, atmosphere and food descriptions.

I had to read much slower to absorb and understand it all but I loved it.

The phrase "local color" does not do justice to what this author achieves.

I could hear these (strange to me) voices in my head. I now really want to try a po' boy.

I just thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and the story line.

Jack was not an A-hole but he stuck to his guns and ditched his ungrateful wife.

Only complaint. Jack's family never completely described and we learn about his children in dribs and drabs. At first I wasn't sure who this character was upon their entrance into the story.

Michelle's family is introduced at the outset.

But that is a minor quibble. I really liked how well thelocal color was captured.

Thanks.

I think they're great. I keep one in my glove box, in case my old pickup breaks down!