Chapter Forty-Five: Shmart
A Batista Story

"Why do you feel the way you do?" asked the therapist, Stephanie McMahon.

"'So easy, an animal can do it'?" Dave rephrased the company's quote. "I mean, come on! Why can't they use something else. Put your feet in my shoes."

"Well, that wouldn't make too much sense." Stephanie told him.

"Why not?!" the male demanded.

"Well, therapists are--" Stephanie was cut short, when he interrupted.

"--are what? Shmart?" Dave vented.

Silence broke for a moment. His cell phone began to ring. Dave looked at it.

"It's my mother." he told her. "I'll put it on speaker phone."