My Foot-in-Mouth Disease
The other day I came back from running an errand to find an unfamiliar car in the driveway. I knew we had a guy coming over to give us a quote on a new HVAC system—so no big surprise.As I parked elsewhere and walked up my path, my husband Mike appeared at the door.“You can see Bob’s here.”“Yep,” I said, entering the house. “I pieced that together. I write mysteries for a living, you know.”“I just didn’t want you to think I had my mistress here,” he said, joking.I laughed and joked back. “Mistress? I’d hope she had a nicer car than that!”I said this at the top of my lungs….as I came around the corner to find Bob at our kitchen table staring at me. You remember Bob. The guy with the crappy car.Smooth as always. It’s like my superpower.I slapped a frozen smile on my face while my brain calculated which would be better:- Explain to Bob I’d meant I hoped only a fabulously rich woman tooling around in an Aston Martin or something could steal Mike away from me…or…
- Run away.
Somehow joking about my husband’s imaginary rich mistress with someone who maybe didn’t even hear Mike’s original joke seemed like a minefield, so I pivoted and bolted to the back of the house, never to be seen by Bob again.
But I’m thinking that HVAC quote could have been better…GIVEAWAYS
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