SALLY...Part 216. DESCENDING INTO HIDEOUSNESS !

Taken a few weeks ago !

Sometimes, well occasionally over the last forty five years and always without meaning to, I say the wrong thing to my wife, thinking that she is bound to agree with me and today was no exception !

She had remarked on something to do with her face as seen on a recent photograph, perhaps the way her chin looked double or the wrinkles around her mouth and the bags under her eyes made her look like a woman far older than she really is !

I have issues of my own too like how shrivelled I now look, how people treat me as if I'm invisible, unimportant and stupid and so I responded with what I considered to be empathy, stupidly seeking a longed for approval which is something rarer than hens teeth in my life...."Yes I know !" I said, "It's all part of our descent into hideousness isn't it ?"

The journey we were on then continued in silence and I now really wish those words had stayed unsaid as I'm having to cook for myself for some reason I simply don't understand and the atmosphere has turned decidedly frosty !

What did I say ? What did I say ?