Eight Years a Substitute, Eight Boyfriends in Return

My boyfriend Robertson has an annual salary of $500,000. He said once he saved up $200,000, he'd marry me.

But I waited from age 25 to 33, and he still hadn't saved enough.

The first year, he said he'd just started working and expenses were high, so he couldn't save any money.

The second year, he said he needed to buy a new car, so he had no money to marry me.

All the way to the eighth year, he got completely drunk at a class reunion and asked me to pick him up.

At the door, I heard a burst of mocking laughter.