by Just Plain Bob
Good story JPB. Although it has more twists and curves than most, I simply love "happily-ever-after". LP
That turned out much better than I expected. I thought old Bobby had taken strike three, but he pulled it out. Not completely sold on Babs though, as she seems a little bit devious, what with the husband thing and all.
Lots of twists and turns in this, but readers can only hope he took the right (and very unexpected) path at the end. Kudos to the cousin who detected the issue (in just hours), but I wonder if she’ll be right in the long term, too. Well done!
Well written. Small grammar and tense errors still more than worth the price. The plot? You have done better
Bit of a strange ending, JPB. You really put this guy through the wringer. So I guess he deserved a break.
JPB strikes again. Best story of his in a while. Could criticize the plot but why bother. It had all the JPB elements and it is all the uncertainy that makes it work including the ending.
by not knowing what to expect and what you forgot. TK U MLJ LV NV
The universe must be out of whack, the earth is off kilter and the four horsemen are just about to have a great day doing what they do best…why I hear you ask?
JPB has (unusually for him) actually written a story adhering to those annoyingly mundane precepts of beginning, middle and end.
It’s the work of the devil or he’s been replaced by a pod person.
With JPB, you never know what’ll happen. You just never know. That;s what keeps him interesting! Thanks for writing!
3 stars for this sad tale of woe.
I mean you forgot to add that someone ran over his dog or stole his F150.
JPB certainly set the standard for LW stories and I do not see very much in the way of new or unique here.
Uhhhhhh...no.
Kinda good story though.
But Babs ain't worth the headache and heartache
This was a 3 star story bit I gave it a 4. Why would he believe Babs without a paternity test. Perhaps her husband kicked her lying ass to the curb and she just needed a baby daddy. After getting burned and hurt 3 times, I would think he would be slow to commit on someone's word alone. Perhaps a follow-up sorry on how she broke his heart, took the kids that were not his to begin with and left him all alone again
1 star. She lied to him from the beginning, so he can't trust her. And liking sex with a woman is not a reason to want to marry her
Wow what a crock of shit... This guy gets shitted on and he proposes to her after all this time no questions asked and right off the bat. I guess he doesn't realize he is the fall back guy and deserves to get cheated on in the future for being such a puss. Not saying he should've kicked her to the curb but everything happened so quickly.
...JPB delivers another really well written story with fun trysts and good characters. The tongue-in-cheek humor in this tale is full of irony and mirth. The commenters below trying to analyze this plot is almost funnier than the enjoyable read.
Keep 'em comin'.
Taking her back would be somewhat of a challenge. Maybe if they signed a real strong prenup, a paternity test to confirm the girls were his. She cheated on her first husband with Bobby and did so with little or no remorse, to me it look like she was just looking for a daddy, would she cheat on him like she did with her first husband, that is a crapshoot at best.
I normally just read romance stories, and I haven’t read anything from JPB for quite a while, but I’ll have to look him up more often! I enjoy the writing, the humor, and the characters, and I love the twists! His stories always elicit the most entertaining comments, too. Don’t mind the low ratings, that’s just people who get all twisted up in the LW category.
As always, thank you for writing, and thank you for sharing your work.
Where O where is the DNA test and a prenup for the maybe slut????
Lie, maybe cheat, run off, and then try to cover her a$$ by coming back to bag a husband and family!!!!!
Always trust and respect and then maybe love builds to a soul mate forever!
Talk about a story going full circle. Poor Bob finally got his just deserts. Thanks for writing.
What a moron! Who would take back a woman like that? How long will it take her to cheat on him?
I have to admit I was completely surprised when JPB used that tired old "surprise baby" trope. How sad.
Enjoyed the ups and downs of Bobby, but after everything he's experienced, to just instantly marry a known and avowed adulteress who only admitted the girls were his after her first choice rejected them was too Deus Ex Machina. A reconciliation in this story was possible, it had that feeling; but the motivations used seemed lazy and forced. Needed a little more thought for the ending.
An IUD isn’t something a woman can just pull out and put back in. Do your research.
Triste final para él, Babs lo buscó porque le falló porque estaba enamorada de Charly y él la echó, volvió con el padre de las gemelas como su segunda opción
Good story until the ending, to twee for my liking, but well written, nice character set and the way lots of young people's live life start off,
JPB must have been drinking the Kool-Aid again. There might be the one or other boy who is such a drop out at sports as to be surpassed by girls the same age. I also read once or twice that due to the uneven distribution of development spurts some girls can be ahead of some boys in some sports for some time. And my mother told me repeatedly that she beat boys when they did dashs or sprints in school. Personally, being from the baby boomer generation, I never experienced something like that. Either way, the fact of life is that men usually are stronger, if you compare within age groups and similar intensity of bodily activity and fitness. Especially the upper body strength is much lower for women.
For reference ypu could look at gazillions of studies and matches between men vs. women or even adolescent boys vs. women in soccer for instance. Apart from a few rigged events women are no match for men. I'm not gloating about it, heck, I myself grew up in an environment with women being put in a pedestal.
I also know that women with children had cut their work out for them in the place and age of my childhood. Just for starters, the country I lived in didn't produce disposable diapers then, and until I was ten we didn't have a washing machine in the modern sense. I had five siblings and my dad was out all day from Monday through Daturday making money, so our mother was alone in catering to us children, doing all the household chores and tending to a garden with potatoes, vegetables and herbs. We also had chicken and one or to pigs until the 1970ies. Still from time to time my mother would do odd jobs, like delivering mail by bicycle. First in the early morning she had to deliver daily newspapers, later on letters, packages and periodicals.
So I don't want to deminish the contribution of women at all. I'd just like to add that my mom was born in 1931, few females of that generation got a higher education. It was very different for those girls born just several years later who went to school after WWII. So I'm not just singing the praise of the full time housewife here.
That said, speaking in general terms woman are less strong physically than men. period!
Yeah I agree with comments, Babs lied to him for the whole time together, and has shown no track record of fidelity. MC seems like he is just desperate to find a woman and really needy. I don't see this marriage working out well at all.
I have to call B.S. good story terrible ending..with your talent you could have been better.
Wow, that is a bang ending.
Boy proposes immediately to the returning slut who used him as a really good side piece for a long time, having never told him he was a side piece.
Quite an ending