Susie’s problem was out of control. She was too short. Her neighbor Tara was just the right height. Susie could not compete in any basketball game with friends and neighbors. Tara was a three point wonder. Susie was plagued by her next door neighbor envy.

Tara had a beautiful lawn. Her husband cut it and trimmed it, even trimming around the patio. Susie’s grass hadn’t seen a lawn mower since her husband bought the echo chainsaw. All he liked to do now was trim the trees. He stopped trimming the grass and it showed signs of neglect.

Susie thought about her own husband. He ignored the grass until it grew high enough for them to be fined. When he finally cut it, he didn’t trim around the patio or edge the sidewalk. She nagged and nagged but he never finished it right.

Susie needed groceries again. She wondered what Tara ate, she was thin but not too thin. Susie carried a few extra pounds. She exercised but it seemed it didn’t help much. Did Tara exercise enough? She supposed she did.

Susie was so happy the day she and her husband bought a twin sleigh bed for their daughter. It was a soft white in French Provincial style and perfect for a little girls room. She called Tara to come over and see it. Tara complimented the bed highly and then they had coffee together. Of course, Susie thought Tara’s brand of coffee was better, but oh well at least she now had a sleigh bed for her daughter.

The next morning she and her daughter went over to Tara’s house for coffee. The girls (Tara had two daughters). Naturally she has twice as many daughters as me Susie thought to herself. The girls played and the mothers visited. They played dolls and video games. Aha, her girls have to share one video system Susie thought. The kids didn’t have any toy envy about that though.

After Susie and her daughter went back home, they chatted for awhile. Her child told her Tara’s daughters each had a sleigh bed in their rooms. Susie had another attack of next door neighbor envy immediately. At least Tara wasn’t in the habit of bragging.

The next day, she took her daughter shopping at a big furniture store. Her daughter asked why they needed more furniture. She grew especially curious when they went to look at sleigh beds. She said she liked the one she had and didn’t want a different one. Susie responded by saying in a gruff voice that she was buying a sleigh bed for the spare room. It’s in case we have overnight company she told the little girl. By the next week, she too had two of the same style beds in her house. Tara had no clue how much next door neighbor envy Susie suffered from.

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