Driving in cars as boys

My wife burst into tears in front of her boss. She explained that her mother had called. Her brother had been in an accident, now he was being rushed into surgery. Obviously, she had to leave early.

Was any of this true? Basically, no. She lied. What drove her to lie, and so convincingly with the outburst of tears? I did.

Last week, I had half days all week to rest my back. My wife pleaded with me to have lunch with her on Friday. I relented and swung by our favorite Greek restaurant on the way. I used my phone's GPS to find my wife's new place of work, but it got me lost.

When I finally got to my wife's building, we'd already exchanged a few frustrated phone calls. To top things off, she didn't have her handy-dandy cell phone on her (what's new?) and kept running back inside to call me. Somehow, I think now we were on opposite sides of the building, we missed each other.

Fifteen minutes into her lunch she spotted me speeding through the parking lot trying to see her. She borrowed some stranger's cell and called to stop me.

The ensuing fight was quite vicious on both sides. At the end of it, she was late from lunch and emotional. When she went back to work to apologize for her lateness, she instead broke down. Put on the spot, she blurted out the first explanation that sprang to mind...

We repaired most of the damage done by the fight. Her feelings are still a bit tender. More so than usual. Didn't stop her from bragging about my sweetness to her friend, resulting in her friend getting on her husband's case. He's my friend,or at least the closest thing I've got to a friend on this side of the country. His reply to his wife: "Why don't you just find a husband more like Dusk!" (You didn't think I'd use my name name, did you?)

We were supposed to cool our heels, watching their dogs and awesome house over the weekend and through next week while they were on vacation. Now he's not even going to go!

Sigh. I only get up in the morning to smell my coffee brewing. It's almost the only time I don't smell the shit that hits me all life long.