My wife (fiancé at the time) regularly teases me about my “duty.” It’s my duty to open car doors, pay for dinner, kiss her, and some day, change dirty diapers. And I’m all about doing my duty.
Shortly after getting engaged, my fiancé and I were headed out to the car directly in front of my apartment. As we were crossing the street to get to the car, she stopped in the middle of the road and said, “Do your duty.”
Perhaps a bit too loudly, I jokingly quipped, “You want me to strip you naked?”
At that moment, just as I had finished the word “strip,” out of the corner of my eye, I noticed someone coming around the corner of the building across the street from my apartment. I didn’t see a face, just some hair. I finished the rest of my sentence without a second thought and gazed lovingly into my fiancé’s eyes.
My fiancé, however, was not so oblivious. Initially stunned into silence, she eventually queried, “Did you see who just rounded the corner?”
“No.”
“That was ‘Alice.’” (Name changed to protect the innocent [both senses of the word ;)]). Alice was a long-time, single friend of mine.
D’oh!
I turned bright red, and my fiancé and I got in the car. I figured my fiancé was correct, but I didn’t want to believe her, so I waited to confirm. Sure enough, Alice came back from the mailbox, saw me in the driver’s seat, and had a bit of a grin on her face. Mortification complete!
If Alice has spread this story to our mutual friends, I haven’t heard about it. Thanks, Alice!
Yikes! There are some things a mother just does not want to think about ...
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