It's the feel-good break-up of the winter! Great story. Nicely done.

But how does the hip urban dweller fit a hot tub into the slave quarters of their Apodment?

Sadly My hottub is out of commission, the electrical panel caught fire last summer. I hooked up an external filter and was using it as a pool but now it is far too cold.

I love this story. Thank you for bringing some sparkel to an otherwise gray day.

I wish I had thought of this when I got divorced!

This picture reminds me of this: http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.t…
What is up with these dudes in the hot tub and their legs?

We got rid of our hot tub last summer. Too much bother to maintain it, and it cost too much to operate (even at City Light's thrifty residential rates) for as little as we used it.

In its place I got a General Electric Partio Cart - a full electric range AND barbeque on wheels! Oodles more fun.

That's a really great illustration.

A good read. Thank you

If you ever get the chance to go to Glenwood Springs, CO in the winter, do it. Your hair starts to freeze and the "hot tub" is a big, stinky swimming pool with geothermal heat.

Best enjoyed at night when you can barely see through the fog rising from the water.

Scrawny dear, I have passed through Glenwood Springs many times on the train, and have stopped at the lodge, but I've never been there during the winter. Now I've got another place to put on my Christmas bucket list (I've already got Palm Springs and The Grand Canyon on it)

Glenwood Springs is awesome. I may retire there if I don't build a hot tub emporium grotto up here in Alaska. Nothing like slipping on the ice on the diving board.

A hot tub party is fun and all, but honestly it sounds like Sarah is in some serious denial... if I were one of her friends I would probably be a little concerned.

@14 - Concerned that the hot tub kept getting cold? She just got it fixed, don't worry!

Wow, it sounds more like you were/are hot for her rather than invested in your relationship with both of them!
Having been in a few relationships in my almost 50 years, I would have to say that if anyone buys that John just left suddenly for no reason that you may slightly deluded. Particulary if you buy the version of no warning and ravioli. If one considers that there was counseling, one must surmise that there was at least one problem that surfaced and also that he put forth some effort to resolve it. If you sense some envy, you are correct, as I wish I would ever have had a man want to be there enough to go through that process as lots don't want anything to do with it.
And, lastly, having considered yourself lucky to be a part of "their" life, shame on you for seemingly having no consideration for John who, ravioli or not, must have been devastated and, apparently, not given much regard by at least one of his friends.

@16 - You're certainly, uh, reading into this story that is about a hot tub. So sorry tho, your first sentence cancelled out my ability to take the rest of your thinly-veiled rambling seriously.

@17 - Kathleen Hanna wasn't in Crass.