A woman reflects on how her mother used to tell her anecdotes from her life. The woman continues this tradition by reciting stories to her children. Shortly after the family moves from the east coast to the midwest, she tells her children about her time in college where she studied music. During her senior year, she lived on a co-ed floor. Five of the six guys end up falling in love with her gorgeous roommate who is also studying music.  She is telling them this story because the town they live in is called Olneyville and it reminds her of one of the guys named Jack Olney. They moved there because she got a job playing in an orchestra in the town. Her IT-working husband agreed to move as this job is going to double her income. In college, the woman’s roommate is called Grace. The first guy Grace connects with is Tim. They meet at a party and make out after. Grace declines to go out with him again, calling it “dormcest." One night while brushing her teeth, the woman finds herself in the bathroom with Mike, another one of the guys living on their floor. He asks if Grace is single, because he thinks she's hot. Grace doesn't go out with him, but by mid-October, Grace is dating Sean, Tim's roommate. The woman is practicing for up to ten hours a day in the music room, so she doesn’t pay much attention to Grace's dating and she finds Tim, Sean, Mike, and another floormate David, to all be interchangeable. The only two other guys on the floor, Alex and Jack, are different. Alex has curly hair and is always nice to the woman. Jack turns out to be a jerk.  One night, the people in the room next to the woman are being extremely loud. It is a room full of the guys from the floor hanging out. She goes to knock on the door and politely asks them to be a bit quieter. Jack yells a derogatory phrase at her. Alex apologizes and says they will be quiet. They are not quiet but the woman does not return. One day the woman is pooping in the bathroom and Jack walks in and waits for her to leave. She is very embarrassed. When she exits the stall he makes a rude comment. She is embarrassed and uses another bathroom. Jack starts using this bathroom as well. Eventually, she starts using the bathroom in the basement of the music building to avoid Jack. However, she still showers in her floor bathroom. One day after showering, Jack waits in the bathroom. He makes an extremely rude joke about rape and flattery.  She flies to New York for an interview at a prestigious music program. When she returns to her room, she finds Grace sobbing as she and Sean broke up. Although later, Grace and Sean end up dating off-and-on through graduation.  Nonetheless, the night before graduation, the woman walks into their room to find Grace having sex with Jack Olney. Normally she would’ve been jealous and revulsed. Revulsion out of her dislike for him and jealousy because of how easily some people find sex. However, the woman was not bothered. That's because a few days earlier, the woman was rushing out of her room when she runs into Jack who swears and yells that she must think she is so talented with her violin. Instead of feeling insulted, she replies that she is very talented, and that she plays a viola, not a violin. In the present, she spends the night on Facebook and messages Grace. Grace is married to Alex, so in fact Grace had all six men from the hall fall in love with her. The woman asks about Jack Olney. Grace replies that he has no one and is suffering from ALS alone in Arizona. This makes the woman very sad. Grace says all of the rest of the guys have an annual ski trip and stay together. The woman feels happy for Grace and thinks she is a kind person.  The woman and her husband have somewhat of a tense and disconnected relationship. Sometimes, they both feel like single parents. The woman tries to tell her husband about Jack as the bully and now Jack as a person with ALS. The woman brings up the idea of sending him a gift, perhaps an Olneyville t-shirt to cheer him up. Travis thinks this is a bad idea as no sick man wants a t-shirt.  Over dinner with her kids, she brings up Jack again. She tells him that he is sick and that she is thinking of getting him a present. She explains that she does not want to do it to make herself feel like a good person and she is confused as to whether it is the right thing to do. She explains that she does not want to gloat and explains what gloating means to her kids. She reiterates what Jack did to her in college. One of her kids thinks it is a good idea, the other does not. She feels emotional that her kids are so thoughtful, even though they haven't helped her figure out what to do. The woman thinks of how her mother used stories to teach life lessons, but her mother would always omit the ending. In fact, she doesn't know how these stories are resolved.