All Comments on 'Good Enough?'

Just didn't like it. Everyone is an asshole. Ironically Barb comes off as the most sympathetic character because she selflessly tried to help Dean recover from his injuries, sacrificing all of her worldly possessions to do so. I'm pretty sure you didn't intend that, but that's just the way it played out.

Only one I felt sorry for was Shelly. She tried to stop the train wreck, but got hit hard by the debris when it happened.

Dean had grounds to divorce the unhappy cunt before she fucked Shithead. As to becoming an asshole, that usually happens with your head getting bashed in.

My neighbor who was a docile reverend and never harmed a soul fell face down on ice in his driveway turned into a vicious monster due to frontal lobe damage.

Tom was cool. Shelly was a straight arrow. Dean became a monster after traumatic brain injury. Have no clue whynthr asshole got to garnish her wages, while he viciously assaulted and nearly killed Dean. Doesn't Dean have a civil suit vs the asshole? Doesn't she have a sexual harassment case if she chooses to lie? She went off a cliff and became execrable. Thr consequences were dour and nightmarish. Still Tom thr cat was cool.

Sad tale that started off so well then suddenly dove off a cliff, though you kind of saw it coming as it built bit by bit. You realize that she wasn't going to see sense until she fucked it up. And boy did she ever. The jokes were pretty fun though, especially that porcupine/BMW one. They lightened the mood.

Very dark. Started out nice and then just went ……. Poof. Perhaps as an ending she wakes up suddenly to find out it was all a dream and she realizes how good of a thing she had?

Well...shit, at the end I felt sorry for her. He'd become such an enormous asshole.

Fine writing, but spoiled by pushing the dishonest msm meme that sodomites are upright and more decent than their hetro counterparts. If you knew anything about homosexual men, you'd know that there is no more narcissistic, predatory, manipulative, sociopathic group of people than they.

Hmmm ! You are such a good writer and I really liked this story, up until she slept with asshole and then her husband turned into one. It could have been so much more satisfying with nearly any other ending. Way too much grief and pain. The only character I liked was the bar owner, oh, and the cat. The story line sucked, but your writing is still top drawer. Stop the shitty endings. Then the stories will be more satisfying and you’ll score better. Just MHO.

Barb got what she deserved, but Dean and Shelly were huge victims. Sad tale.

Turned into slapstick. What grounds did shithead have for suing her? She didn’t assault him or cause him injury. He assaulted the husband.

Need another story with Tom the cat. The ex-wife differently falls in the category of too stupid to live. Complaining about Dean turning into an asshole after having his skull crushed. Ask the military about TBI injuries.

You ruined this story with all those constant smart ass remarks. Loved the faithful cat..Until reaching the point of your MC going bad,good story..To bad you catered this tale for those that have a problem with good,realistic dialog..humour is good,slapstick is for simpletons..this story could have be great if you did not go the route you did..this one I am disappointed in because your much better...JZK

+5 for Tom the cat. Dean obviously had neurological damage after the terrible fight with Shithead. How did Shithead win his civil suit? What was the basis if the suit? No charges were filed? The wife had about as disastrous a one night stand as possible. But given how she acts and talks leading up to that, there is no way to have sympathy for her drunken tryst. Dean had his life blown up. Glad he got the house. But yeah he really turned into an asshole.

The image of guard cat Tom wreaking havoc in the bedroom had me laughing out loud, Dean turning into an asshole not so much.

Character and cooking skill………..look only for these qualities. Hotness will lead to what hot does….BURN YOU. R.H.

So because she was ungrateful for what she has, she ruined a good dude and made him bitter for life, that's a crime.

The cat made the story for me.

Christ, was she an idiot, but this story was hilarious!

Liked the story a lot, but a nice text revision (like "relator to realtor") would be welcome.

You're better than this! But I loved the cat.

Her distasteful attitude and petty jealousy really creeps up on you. So wrapped up in her own little world she never sees the man she married for what he is, or rather, was.

Sad story. Witty but the spelling and grammatical errors detract (and are a distraction). I liked it some but not top marks. Three stars.

This website has so many readers that just love to imagine that they were smart enough and witty enough to come up with all these clever bon mots when they’re arguing with their wives. The fact they find this so entertaining tells us that they’re not.

If a guy was really that smart, would he really end up with a woman who can pull the wool over his eyes whenever she wants?

Anybody can come up with witty sayings to a conversation that took place in the past. What you’re pandering to is the poor saps who keep saying to themselves “I shoulda said that! Then she would know that I’m really smarter than her!”

hahaha, quite a comedy. Would have been a five except for all the stupid grammar and spelling errors. Would have been a zero except for the black cat!

That 'witty dialogue' and 'profound statements' sure took away from the story, which already sucked. Talented writer, getting too clever while having a bad day.....

I totally missed why Barb had issues with Marge. Dean didn't cheat on Barb with Marge as this all happened before she met him? Or am I just not insane enough?

Why is she paying shithead.? He is the cause of his own problems,she didn't attack Dean.

She didn't appreciate what he was but got what she deserved and he was better for it

like all the quotations and Tom the cat. LOL

like all the quotations

After re-reading this story I changed the stars from 4 to 5. I can totally see how Dean became a changed person. In real life if something like that happened to myself, I would be totally bitter. Not for sure if therapy would work because I would have spent a year in a hospital put there by someone's I loved and trusted whose stupid, selfish action caused me to be there. So yeah, I can see how Dean would radically change. Good story

Hard

But well written.

This was way over the top and I believe that’s where the author was aiming for . The humor was slapstick and witty , the situations were off color and delightful , and the end ,well let’s just say ,the ends fit the means ! Personally I thought it quite comical and refreshing with an action scene befitting Tom-foolery ! Great entertainment worth 5 stars to me !

In the beginning everyone was flippant and spouted lines, then everything just turned violent and bitter. Not my thing, sorry.

I still hate this fucking story

Some funny lines but overall a depressing story. The only good guy was Tom the Cat. Sell the house, declare bankruptcy and move away. It can't be that hard. Dumb woman.

Everyone spreading in metaphors, platitudes, and old sayings got real old real quick

1 star because that is all I have ever awarded for stories that are full of violence - even if it was stupid ass violence.

Tom is by far the most loveable character in this great story.

Yep, interesting case documented in the late 1800s. A guy setting blasting charges had an iron tamping rod blown through his skull from under his chin and out the top of his head. He lived through it, even in a time without antibiotics and advanced medicine. Those who knew him observed his temperament swing 180 degrees and he became very moody, especially when imbibing in adult beverages. Head injuries can really change people.

I absolutely hate this fucking story.

Found it rather weak, lacking much in the way of effort. It was just sort of there. Most things were well telegraphed so there was little in the way of surprises or anything new.

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injuries) can have devastating personality changes. Seems that happened to Dean

What did dean see in barb to begin with? LOVE slap hapy papy #9

Wow, Dean made a complete personality change. Either becuase of the cheating or the injuries.

He even went after shelly eve he himself helped her out according to the story.

Entitlement can be disastrous.

This is one of the best & the funniest story I have ever read

Again. This is a great story, probably my favorite cpete story. I think she might have missed Dean off a little.

Haha, was this inspired by the Seinfeld episode where Jerry can't handle the fact that the girl he's currently dating used to date Newman before he broke up with her? Funny stuff, Dean's fate was so outlandish that I couldn't even feel bad for him, it was just too hilarious. Marge was a great character, too.

Boy was she stupid. Got everything she deserved and more

A good story that got lost by going down a dark road towards the end. Cut the number of cliches by half please.

I almost stopped reading halfway through the first page. I thought it was just a poorly written attempt to be funny. Glad I didn't quit. It was absurd. It was over the top.

It was well written and funny. GREAT JOB! 5*

She deserved EVERY BAD thing that happened to her!!! Dean is the true victim here. Feel bad for Shelly, also a victim. Dean has every right to be an asshole!!!

Dean was betrayed but he is a gigantic asshole. Everyone doesn't deserve to be treated like shit because he was fucked over. The guy needs therapy not to mention growing up.

Bored

Dean is handling his business the right why.

well written.

Besides the obvious hurt husband, he seemed to have personality change from traumatic head injury.

Poor guy lost his wife and his mind.

No sympathy for Dean at all? Where do these readers come from?

Let me suggest that you be placed in his shoes: Devoted husband, providing a lucrative life for an ungrateful bitch of a wife. Your selfish self centered spouse gets a bug up her ass concerning a former girlfriend's decision to dump YOU which leads her to "get even" with YOU by fucking shithead, in YOUR house, in YOUR bed.

Fate has YOU show up and YOU assume (incorrectly) that YOUR beloved wife is being raped and YOU sacrifice YOUR body to allow her a chance to escape.

The aftermath is that YOU are PERMANENTLY disabled and have continuing heath issues.

How would you respond Mr anon? Forgive her? Read her words, she is was full of blaming everyone else. Yes, she cashed in everything to provide the medical care... she OWED him that!!! It was her fault!!! That fact does not require that she be forgiven.

The author painted this picture with the correct hues. Hell yeah he'll be bitter. Too bad about Shelly, she was collateral damage. If Dean hadn't been so damaged physically, there may have been a story there, but as it was told, everyone's life in the story ended in tragedy, all because of one tramp.

So, to make up for unfair reviews, *****

I think Dean took completely the right attitude after her cheating. If she doesn't cheat, then he and whitehead don't get hurt. There is no divorce and Shelly isn't ruined. There is only one person at fault and she pays.

Well written so I gave it 3 stars but I read for enjoyment to escape the reality of our society

No escape here

WOW, not one working brain cell left in that comment

I do find fault with Dean, and for good reason. The guy is undeniably ungrateful to the future-former for the lengths she went too to provide the better care not covered by insurance. She could have protected herself and left him even worse off. He turned himself into a bitter asshat while she showed remorse. I am not saying her remorse was sufficient for forgiveness, but it was sufficient to show Dean as a bitter wallowing unlikable asshat. I have no sympathy for him at all. Everybody has shit in their lives, some people turn it into fertilizer for something good, others spend their lives just smelling like shit. Dean, meet shit.

anybody that finds fault with Dean was dropped on their head at birth.

'his personality isn't good enough' just like dean said, you try being brained in the head with a lamp, spend over a year in the hospital. wake up dizzy all the time. have frequent headaches. have a limp. all because someone that claims to love you, decided to bring her lover into your home.

if you're so much better...give me the name of YOUR wife. i'll bed her for you, bash you over the head with a lamp, and we'll see how amazingly positive your outlook on life is afterwards. sheesh.

Deans job was good enough, but his personality wasn't. I like a BTB, but at the end, Barb seemed humble and someone I would want as a friend, and Dean I would have no use for. The story was entertaining to read.

True fact. There's a bar in my town, near my son's apartment, called "The Office." Same rationale.

She pulled a gun out of her bag and put a bullet between Dean's eyes, thus ending his life. Stupid story with no thought given to what happens when you push rat's into corners. Horrible ending.

1 star

...was rimshot sound effects for the one-liners.

"Looks like it's true the only difference between porcupines and BMWs is that with porcupines the pricks are on the outside."

The way I see BMW drivers act that quote fits sooooo well !

The best part of any cpete story is the dialogue. I wish he would write more.

I think the house was mortgaged to pay off Shithead's lawsuit, not Dean's medical bills. Just one stupid wife making a drunken mistake that cost her everything. Where can I find a cat like that badass Tom?

She got exactly what she deserved. Without Dean she would have lost the house years ago. She had such an overinflated opinion of herself that there was no other course that her life could take. Even now, if she doesn't change her life doesn't get any better than it is now. The only sad part of the story is Dean and how she changed him from the guy he was into the hardened guy he is now. Even the guy she fucked, who apparently didn't know she was married, deserved better than a lifetime of being wheelchair bound. As far as Sally, collateral damage from being her friend.

For mortgaging her house, selling her property to pay off for Dean's medical bills. If she knew the dick he would turn out to she would have written him off and started fresh.

Marge's first discussion made me think the author must have seen that seinfeld episode where Seinfeld was dating a girl Newman had broken up with and was going nuts how Newman could have broken up with her and Newmans says "she might be ok for you, but I need a woman with a really pretty face".

In the beginning the quotes were funny, it got annoying with too much from Dean towards the end.

I confess I love "pussy" .....Cats! Yeah Baby! Story was good but not good if you get my drift! I'm glad that Tom is OK! Anybody who hurts Animals is just an advocate for the Red Tailed Dude with the Pitch Fork! Anyway that's my Comment 4★ WOOF!

All those aphorisms. Whole conversations between two people comprised solely of aphorisms - I've never seen that before and it struck me as funny. Good story, well written. Another 5 stars. Thanks.

the whore deserved MUCH worse .

but what she got was acceptable =)

Worth a 5 * from me.

"I won't, this just a bit of a payback for Dean about Marge." - How is CHEATING with Shithead payback for Dean being with Marge before they even met?

"Shelly was too busy to keep track of my stupidity." - She couldn't have been too busy to see you leaving with Shithead! And as I said in an earlier comment, she could have had Barb serve the gay softball league, especially knowing her state of mind. I do feel sorry for her, she TRIED to screw Barb's head on straight, Barb just refused to listen.

"Tomato, tamato." - the difference is in the second syllable, not the first: To-may-to, To-mah-to. Check out "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".

How fucking stupid are you? Asking reality questions about a story that is fiction? Damn.

Anyway the fucking stupid whore got what was coming to her.

Wasn't his wife paying all of his medical costs? If he barred her, and moved to divorce her, couldn't or shouldn't she have stopped paying all the medical bills? As for shithead, civil suit or not, the courts take a dim view about a person losing their residence over these things. This is from personal experience after a civil suit from a car accident.

Took half the time to get to the meat of the story. It wandered a little then but was entertaining. Hard to endure such a blatantly self-centered character, but it was the reason for the adventure.

While I still believe that he was too hard on Shelley, maybe Shelley, knowing Barb's mental state, should have had Barb serve the Gay Softball League rather than the suits, who could (and did!) provide temptation.

there were way too many to keep track of.

Great aphorisms, too!

The only real loser in this story is shelly she did evrything wright the only things she could do was phisacly stop her ore theathing she would tell her husband if she whent for the drinks and lets just face it she a friend and not her master she gave evry bit of advice a friend should give. and good burned heavenly sad just sad

there are alot of people who live just becouze its ilegal to kill them realy struck home for himself to!

boring, stupid, depressing crap. sorry I wasted time on this.

How did Dean2.0 learn the truth of 'That night'? Barb certainly wanted to keep it secret, hoping he didn't remember, so it obviously wasn't from her. From Shithead? Dean thought he raped her, on that faithful night, which Shithead would deny for obvious reasons, but there is no way Dean would believe him, or his friends. So he must have learned the truth from the detectives, and they must have learned the truth from the only believable source; Shelley!

Proving that Shelley REALLY got the shitty end of the stick, for not only telling the truth, at the cost of her friendship, but for sticking up for Dean in the first place, at the cost of her livelihood!

In the end, the only real losers were Shelley, for obvious reasons, and Dean. The real Dean lost, because he died that night, being replaced with a completely different personality. After all, we are not merely our physical selves, but the person we are is defined by our personality! When that personality is gone, the person is gone.

Barb may have lost her meal ticket, and may have lost out financially, but out of the three, Dean and Shelley lost the most.

With those that disagree with the way he ruined Shelley,(if that makes sense). She tried her best to get Barb to grow a brain, and see what she had. Shelley wasn't a babysitter, it wasn't her job to watch Barb 24 hours a day. She did what she could. She wasn't helping Barb, or covering for her, but was trying to get her to grow up and stop being a spoiled brat. Shelley had a business to run, so unless she physically restrained Barb, she couldn't watch Barb full-time. It wasn't Shelley's job to keep Barb's legs closed! Yes, she broke the law by asking Barb to help out behind the bar, but the key word is BEHIND. She asked her to WORK, not play. She never sent her out to be a slut, (In fact, she tried to prevent Barb from doing that). Barb was the one drinking, and making her own decisions, and that was going to happen, either way.

Their was was enough there of a complete humoress story.....billl

5Sssss

'nuf said!

are never close enough to the real truth. TK U MLJ LV NV

My only second thoughts about criticizing his treatment of Shelley is that he DID suffer head trauma, so who knows how that affected his personality?

I liked this a bit better than the first time, but I still don't agree with Dean ruining Shelly.

And I don't see Shithead having any case in a civil suit. He may have been an invited guest and not a rapist, but he DID attack Dean, whose self-defense was the cause o his injuries.

In seeing her husband and marriage in a seriously blindered selfish perspective, she engaged in thoughts and actions that were inevitably guaranteed to lead to pain for Dean.

Clearly he sustained cranial trauma... the thought that his whole life got fucked up while TRYING to protect her - from an incorrectly perceived situation - just makes it that much worse.

It's kind of like the movie Harvey. Where the cab driver comes in wanting his fare... and relates how whatever they do to the people he brings up turns the people from nice guys into complete assholes (paraphrasing)...

It's just in this case she didn't listen to "the cab driver" (Shelley) and everyone suffered for it.

I'm sure if Dean knew what he would become - and do - he'd have rather died in the fall.

Bitterness due to betrayal was a nice touch.But why Shelly ? She was portrayed as a wonderful lady, the only likable character.It just ruined the story for me.And what about the divorce settlement?

Also,I agree with some of the comments.The story has SS06 written all over it.Extremes of all kind.Please do not go there, it's not worth the effort.

Thanx,however,for the droplets of humor.

Good enough? Sorry.No.

I guess Dean got his memory back. Well written story. Definately not a feel good story. True, she didn't appreciate Dean or her marriage and was ripe to cheat but man, talk about consequences for one drunken mistake. I think this is a good example where it would have been better if everybody died except Shelly. I think Shelly would agree with me. Holy Shit This story gives a whole new meaning to scorched earth policy. Thanks for the story (I think).

Excellent writing.

The story left me feeling sad.

Everyones loves were ruined, not even a glimmer of a happy ending for anyone.

***5****