The Cottage, My Date, Nasty Coyotes, And Me…Not a Good Situation…

It took Ben Sherman almost a year to score a date with Maureen (Mo) Heit. He had met her at his office and there was great chemistry. The problem was Mo was involved in a relationship with a Lawyer from Woodspoon, Thomas, Veillieux a competing firm. The guy she was seeing on a steady basis was Hal Windlim and Ben thought he was a dick. They had gone to law school together and Ben was certain he had never met a bigger megalomaniac than Hal Windlim. The guy was the ultimate shmuck, he paid people in their law class to do his pro-bono work because he didn’t want to deal with riff-raff.

Ben was fascinated with how Maureen had gotten involved with Windlim. Hal spent most of his time admiring himself, how had he snared such an incredible woman?

Maureen was a brilliant lawyer and Ben was very careful to never cross the professional and personal line at the office. Things changed when Mo and Hal moved in together. It didn’t take Maureen long to realize that Hal was a self-serving shmuck. He treated her like his personal maid and constantly spoke down to her. The straw that broke the camel’s back came when Maureen’s parents came to visit the condo she was sharing with Hal. After they left, Hal questioned her Father’s intelligence’’ and her Mother’s ‘’hygiene.’’