I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

My husband has a shopping problem.  Usually, you hear this the other way around.  But no, my dear sweet husband is really into clothes.  Which is not something you find with anyone here in Madison County, not in Granite City.  And half the clothes he buys – on the Internet of course, although he makes trips up to Chicago every couple of months, too – are just not the kind of thing one wears around here.  I don’t get it.  Give me the Gap, Kohls, Target, even Walmart.

Lately he got really out of hand and we had some bills we couldn’t pay.  Something to do with a “Barney coat” he bought in Chicago.  $1200!  I mean, this is for a coat he’d never wear to work. And my work has slowed down lately due to the economy, so I looked up Car Title Loans in Granite City to find a way to handle it.  Sure enough, our Buick is still worth something.  So we got that car title loan, with the fast cash in one day.

And would you believe he had the nerve to chastize me for buying gas at the Shell, which is about five cents more than at the Marathon station?

By the way Granite City is near Madison, Venice, Mitchell, Caseyville, and Oldenburg.