Disputes, arguments, points of disagreement, conflict, estrangement, separations

Disputes, arguments, points of disagreement, conflict, estrangement, separations

I

2013, May.

A couple walks out of their house, they go to the bus stop, four blocks south.

         The young male does not remember if he has closed the faucet in the house garden, to which a green hose is connected.

         They are two blocks south from his house and one block north from a candy store.

         He tells his wife that they should return to see if the faucet is closed or open.  Why waste so much water? In addition, at home there is a water consumption meter, installed by the Municipal Board of Water Supply and Sewerage.

         She asks him to go firstly to the candy store, as she wants to buy some chocolates.

         He says “no” to her, because they would walk more and waste time. He wins.

         Another solution would have been: "You, my wife, go to the candy shop, I will go to the house and then I will reach you at the candy store, at the bus stop, or on the way between the two."

         She expressed that she would not wanted, she wanted to walk with him.

         Finally, both go home, check that the faucet was closed, and then walk to the candy store, she buys chocolates; he, a pack of cigarettes, and continue towards the bus stop, in order to go to a mall.

II

2006, January.

Two teenage friends, both male, go inside an internet cafe, decide they are going to be a few minutes in that place, and then they will go to visit their girlfriends.

         Both chat with preppies their age.

         Alfred says it's time to leave, but Robert is engaged in a chat that seems very interesting to him.

         They engage in a discussion.

         Robert stays for more than three hours in the chat.

         Alfred has been gone for over two and a half hours to the neighborhood where the girls live. After greeting his girlfriend Marcia, he waves his hand to Elena, Robert's girlfriend.

         This girl asks him about her boyfriend and Alfred lies to cover him up, he tells her that Robert had to stay home to do something, by a command of his father.

         We ignore if Robert the conqueror was so convincing to turn the flirting girl he was chatting with into his friend, but we do know he can be a philanderer.