"What for?"
"For giving me a second chance," I said. I reached for my clothes and
started getting into them. "I've had one look at the future, and maybe
it was a phony, but it taught me one thing--life can't be any worse
here."
"Are you, then, planning to withdraw from the experiment?" he asked,
gaping.
"Damned right I am!" I smiled happily, put on my coat, and left the lab
without a further word. I knew now that there was no sense in running
off to the future; things weren't any simpler there.
I knew what I would do: I would find my girl, take her out someplace,
talk over all our misunderstandings. I was confident we'd patch things
up somehow.
All I had to do to make our marriage work was be a little more
considerate--and let her share the responsibilities, instead of trying
to run the whole show myself. Yes, I thought, as I started down the
familiar dirty old twentieth-century street. Women needed to be given
more responsibility in running things.