介绍： 016 | Revenge of the Friend

THEY kissed! Nobody kisses in spin class. A roomful of sweaty people panting atop steel bikes with 30-pound flywheels is no place for romance, and certainly no place for my friend’s ex-husband to show up with his girlfriend, the woman he left her for.

It was just a few weeks int...

介绍： 016 | Revenge of the Friend

THEY kissed! Nobody kisses in spin class. A roomful of sweaty people panting atop steel bikes with 30-pound flywheels is no place for romance, and certainly no place for my friend’s ex-husband to show up with his girlfriend, the woman he left her for.

It was just a few weeks into the new year, and I had a packed class of weekend warriors perched on their saddles waiting for me to help them fulfill their resolutions to become skinny and fit. My friend’s ex was the last person I expected to see. In the two years since they had split up, I’d gone out of my way to avoid him. But here he was, looking as ridiculous as most middle-aged men do in tight Lycra shorts.

I couldn’t have imagined a better scenario to let him have it. I had a microphone strapped around my head and a captive audience.

The problem was that I used to like him. I attended his children’s baptisms and helped plan his 40th birthday party. We had spent countless hours together drinking wine and commiserating about child-rearing, long Wisconsin winters and interrupted sleep. He could be charming, and that morning his familiar charm disarmed me before I could remind myself that I wasn’t supposed to like him anymore. My smile was a reflex that he misinterpreted as a welcome.

A small woman with a tight ponytail and a toothy smile walked in and stood next to him. He introduced her as his “friend.”

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