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By Allisson GeraPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
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First thing first... finding pizza to deliver out here sucks. I picked a terrible spot to run away to.

My husband and I got into a fight and remember my last post where I said running away wasn't cool? Yeah well, I ran away. It wasn't until an hour down the road when I said to myself, "Shit. I'm such a hypocrite". Now, this isn't my first time, when I get so riled up and talking isn't working, I just leave.

Once, while we were fighting in the car in the parking garage of our apartment complex, I sprinted out and just ran, I ran up 2 flights of stairs and ran outside, I walked down the road, around the block, I didn't know where I wanted to go, but I didn't want to stay. I just kept thinking, I should have packed a bag, I should've brought my purse with me, but if I did have something... where would I go? Play Safe Haven and jump on a bus and start a new life somewhere? Obviously not.

I am an irrational thinker.

This time, I was prepared. I wasn't starting a fight or expecting one to happen but it did. Let me break down the stupidity of the source of the fight.

We have an Amazon Echo, 1 week old. We started playing with the shopping list feature and last night, I was messing with the Walmart grocery pick-up ad and added everything from our list to my cart online. I thought it was the coolest thing, like everything I had on my list and more, I found on the site. I wanted to add a couple of things I wasn't sure about that my husband wanted so I waited until the morning to ask.

I have my laptop open and I'm asking him what kind of sparkling water he wants, he tells me, I add it. I show him all the stuff I added and then I found out same day pick-up wasn't available. And we have to actually use our legs to get the stuff ourselves. *sigh*

He reviews the list and notices a few things he added to the Alexa list wasn't in my cart. I opened the app on my phone and the list was already pulled up but the things weren't added. He tells me from his phone it added them but it didn't add to my list. Which this is a con of the Alexa, these things don't transfer over. Either I have to ask Alexa to add them and they go on my list on my phone and then obviously when he asked Alexa to add these items, they were on his list on his phone.

He kept telling me he added them and showed me and I thought weird, it didn't show on this list. So I closed out the app and opened it again and I saw they were there and I said, "oh look! I have them here. They were added". I see floss and deodorant were added together and I slightly chuckled, "ha floss deodorant... let me fix that."

3..2..1.. the bomb is preparing to detonate. He starts cleaning up the kitchen and I can tell he's pissed. He walks into the living room and his eyes are a little wide and his lips are flattened and tightened. I ask him, "Wait, what's wrong? did I do something?" and he's quiet. I keep asking, "what did I do?" and he mocks, "oh they weren't on my list!" and I grow confused. I said, "they weren't when I added the things to my cart... I just noticed you added them".

He grows angrier, questioning why I wasn't looking at the list when I added the items online, I retract because I couldn't believe that he was angry about this. Nothing nice or gentle was being said. I ask, "why didn't you tell me you added them early this morning?" That was the pin to the grenade. He laughs. "Ok, so I should tell you the exact time of when I do things so you can better understand." I grow angry and leave the room, "well it would certainly help. I had these things added before you added something more to the list".

He throws the box of tapioca starch, straws, boba flavoring and my pie tin from the thrift shop (which bent...) on the ground and spills into our bedroom.

I slowly walk over and pick the things up, put them back into the box, and set them back on the counter.

I stood up. Looked out the window and said to myself, "I'm leaving".

At this point, I was shaking a little, I wanted to leave, I was confident in that decision and I didn't want him to stop me or talk to me, I wanted him to do exactly what he did when I walked out that door. Still lying in bed, looking at his phone, not saying a word.

I grabbed my bag and while I was walking towards the door, I said, "I need to talk to him one last time".

I walk back into the bedroom and I said, "you want to talk?" he said, "well it looks like you're getting ready to leave so". I sit on the end of the bed and ask him why he's acting this way. He asks me "like how?" I stare at him and slowly say, "you got so angry about the things on the list you had..." he laughs. "I added 3 fucking things to the list and you didn't see them??? You didn't bother to look at the list when you were adding things this morning??? Like it's just like if we had a list on the refrigerator and asked if we had eggs and you go, oh honey, I don't know! Just look!" I was appalled. He swore. I was belittled. I was leaving. I said "ok".

I got up, walked to the entryway, pulled out my laptop to see what motel I'll fancy tonight. I patted our pup on the head and thought, "I need to leave or else this pup will get to me". So I packed up, grabbed my bags and left.

The door shuts, and I heard from inside "Bye!"

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Allisson Gera

amateur blogger - newly married - diet coke obsessed

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