Long-time Ridge Road resident Marv McKay spent the week at home alone while his wife Nellie visited her out-of-town sister.
After dropping Nellie at the dusty train station, McKay watched the airplanes take off and land at RIC, then drove back home after stopping for an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen.
“I enjoyed the cool weather,” said Marv, reminiscing of his week without the wife. “Yesterday we had some rain, but all-in-all I can’t complain.”
Most of the week was fairly uneventful, according to Marv, adding that a family named Brown did stop by to check on him. “Other than that, I did burn a hole in the dining room table – but let me see, I guess that’s about all.”
And, he was in bed each night at nine.
Nellie was relieved her simpleton husband got along OK in her absence. “He is so f***ing helpless, like a baby. I swear, I’m scared to leave him in the car by himself, much less at home. Would you believe that moron got his head stuck in the power window of our Buick? And you know that hole he burned in the dining room table? My God, it’s because he built a f***ing fire right on the table! What’s wrong with that a**hole, anyway?”
