The Coward

No thanks

Poor story and, as is often the case with jpb, no resolution phase in the story. All the story did was introduce the reader to a loser.

Resolution?

This good story could use an ending! Thank you.

Pattern?

Stories are all getting to be to predictable, no resolution and most of the time lacks the substance his earlier stories had! Sad!... I see a pattern, just posting for the sake of posting with no concern as to quality of the posting.

Yup, all JPB did was introduce us to a loser!

No real story here!

Cute story

And a logical conclusion. Why should he divorce his wife, he is getting paid handsomely, for obstensively legitimate work, as her pimp. Wifey was giving herself for freebies, why shouldn't hubby get a little profit? That's what pimps do, isn't it? SOunds like a win-win-win situation.

Introduction to a nothing character

Yup, he's a loser. There's really not much of a story here. Everyone takes advantage of this guy and he doesn't want to rock the boat so he doesn't look to closely at things and even when he does he takes no action. A Jerry Seinfeld story? About nothing? When the story is about nothing and nothing is happening it can be as long or short as the author wants. It's up to how stupid the readers are as to how long they continue to fall for it. They are always waiting for something to happen. Never did like that show.

I just wasted five minutes of my life

reading a chunk of text which went nowhere. Total waste of server memory. I realise JPB is a highly prolific contributor but high vloume of rubbush ain't worth much. BAH!

schmuck

As much as I like JPB's writing, this one is total crap. Unbelievable crap.

He needs to go to the clinic and hire a bum to fuck his wife.

Make sure he has one of those deadly STDs and just wait until nature takes its course.

None of the men would even know she was infected until she started to break out with open sores all over her body.

Since he has long ago given up fucking his wife, he would be uninfected, but all of the good old boys in his office and in her office will be on their way to the grave.

Just a thought !!!!

LOL

Part deux?

IMHO, one of JPB's least appealing stories.

Enough said. This read more like an unflattering obituary than a story. Did not like it, and did not see the humor if there was any.

Bravo

It is nice that you got everyone talking. Quite a different slant than your usual. Sometimes those things from out in left field may tell us something about ourselves. Thanks Bob, keep em coming...

Sorry

Sorry JPB but not good. But thanks for the writing,, Jim

Argh!

I feel like you could have written more.... Oh well....

It's an allegory

Relax folks ! This story is an allegory. It's good humor. Laugh a little. The "golden handcuffs" is a term heard among professional employees who might be hard pressed to make as much or have as many benefits at another employer.

I agree with digdaddyrich

Give us another story where "Coward" gets backbone and does what digdaddyrich says, Graet Idea.

WIMP

WHAT A DICK ID THROW HER OUT ON HER ASS SMACK THE BOSS AND MOVE 100 MILES AWAY

I Myself Would Not Smack the Boss...

I would probably kill him and then do something to that bitch that calls herself your wife. It would destroy her emotionally but would not harm her phsycally...although she does deserve it.

like i have said before

you either love his sotries or you hate'm

SITTIN" AND WAITIN"

sounds more like constipation.. TK U MLJ LV NV

Poor lost man. Some men need be taken out of their missery

Sad story, sad man, sad life. But a good chance for us real men to bust a gut laughing!!! Thanks

Oh COME ON!

This husband has moved to the top of the "I'm a pathetic excuse for a husband" list. Get the private detectives, get the hidden tape recorder, get the video cameras. Do something. Bury these men and their company. Bury them, if necessary. Use your JPB warped mind. Get him to hire some ex-military guys to bury all the men that were in the house that night. Hire a group of Hell's Angels. But DO SOMETHING! FINISH THIS DAMN STORY. You are now on the top of MY list as the most frustrating writer on this site.

Most of his stories are just pure shit!

salaryman

Do it like a Japanese salaryman and sit in the office (staring out the window, playing a video game, twiddling his thumbs) if they fire him they lose her.
Then using the higher income go get his own on the side, never touching the whore.
Not perfect but it is not a perfect world.

Funny!!

I picture you typing all of this stories laughing you ass off thinking, how the readers get bent out of shape and how easy you can get them off the deep end. Either this or your testosterone level is zero.

Hmmm...

Not a tale I usually read but there is a sequel and I needed to read this first.
No rating

Damn

You know, I read the sequel and it was totally worthless. I respected the end here more than I did the sequel.

different, believable

I would quit, and get a divorce. then hire someone, if I had to sell my soul to the devil, to get even with both my wife, and the company, especially the boss.

i'd pimp her cheatin' ass out

and make them pay me whatever they were gonna pay her.

So he has no backbone?

And no response to this man telling him he's married to a serial cheater? The threat to blackball him from one industry, let alone many was ridiculous. Move to the other side of the Country and start over. Or move out of the Country and start over. No problems doing that. Leave the whore by herself. She can fend for herself - alone. I think you write this stuff and leave stories without endings just to piss off the readers. UGH!