His wife hates him for not making it to the NBA, so she cheats on him to get alimony, but he has a plan.

This is about my former boss at a pretty big grocery chain. So Dave was a pretty average guy,

40-something years old, graduated high school, married his high school sweetheart, and got a stocker job

at a grocery store and worked his way up to store manager.

I worked at his store for eight months and he was a great boss. Everything got weird in month 9 when

he was suddenly fired and the very next next month he came back as the produce manager. Then the

produce manager, Bob, suddenly became the store manager. I was stocking

with Dave one night after the fact and asked him what the frick was going on, so he told me.

Turns out Dave's high school sweetheart wasn't so sweet. She married him because he was six

foot seven, the star of the basketball team, and she thought he was going to play in the NBA.

When he chose quiet small town life instead, she never forgave him for it, nor did her

well-to-do white parents.

No money, no tolerance types.

She even cheated on him with guys that worked beneath him in the stores he managed.

He told me he had to change stores five or six times over

the years, but had stayed with her for his kids. She had threatened to take them away,

and he didn't want them to suffer or for him to be known as another deadbeat, N-word to everyone in the

community. So he played the long game. He was a good father to his kids. When her wife's parents died,

he used the big inheritance to pay for all three of the kids to go to really good private schools

and top-tier colleges, with the rest set up in a trust fund. He lived frugally and got an accountant

to manage his savings. At the youngest kid's high school graduation, he served his wife

the divorce papers and walked away. She can't get alimony because he needs to be gainfully

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