OMG! Omaha Steve, step away from the Internets!
Why are you spending your last daze in that smog-filled cesspool of human idiocy? Isn't there a park or a garden you could spend you time at? Maybe with a drawing pad or a note book, writing down reflective thoughts of your daze past? Those you felt were misspent and those you think were well-lived?
Yeah, the big guy really needs to pay more attention to what's going on around him.
It's true Bellevue's the third-largest city in Nebraska, but it being Nebraska, that's not really saying much; in a blue state, it'd be considered a small town. And also it being Nebraska, where people tend to be friendly and sociable with each other, everybody knows everybody else.
It's been long known in Bellevue what a worthless, heavy, burden the big guy's been to his wife, poor dear Marta, and so when the big guy announced he was terminal, many took this as indicating Marta had better days ahead for her, once that was over, probably a second chance with a guy who'd love and cherish her.
It seems everybody in Bellevue excepting the big guy are aware Marta plans ahead; she's already got a guy picked out for her second husband. He's 70 years old, not likely to live more than another ten years.....and loaded. I know that makes Marta sound mercenary, but actually she's just being practical, and it needs pointed out she truly loves him, truly wishes to make his last years secure and comfortable.
One can be practical and loving at the same time.
The old guy's already attracted the notice of the big guy's cute little granddaughter, on whom he's constantly showering presents. He's so different from her real grandfather, and the perceptive little lass loves him to pieces; can hardly wait until grandma can have the chance to marry him.
<<<if were the big guy, would sign off Skins's island--permanently--and check on the world around me.
