My wife’s cousin made the following statement on Facebook a few weeks ago: “I am officially THAT guy who waits for his wife in the nail salon while his wife gets her eyebrows done.” I just had to laugh, is there anybody who has been married for any length of time who isn’t that guy?
One day my wife, (not my current wife, my ex-wife) and I were perusing through the mall. She was shopping for who the heck knows what and as she headed into yet another store I found a bench. The elderly gentleman who was already sitting there looked up from his paper as I sat down and we had the following conversation.
Mr X. “Welcome to the bench club”
Me: “Excuse me?”
X: “The MetroTown bench club, which store is she in?”
Me: (pointing) “I’m pretty sure that one over there.”
X: “my wife went in that one over there 2o minutes ago”
Me: “Twenty minutes? I certainly hope she will show up soon. My wife won’t take that long.”
X: (giving me an odd look) “If you say so, mine shouldn’t be much longer after all I’m holding her purse (he reached down and raised her purse a little so I could see it) and she will be needing it soon enough.”
Me: “So, you sit on the bench holding her purse reading the paper while your wife shops”
X: “Thats the truth of it son. Mind you I started off just like you, sitting on the bench while she ran into the store…just for a minute eventually I learned to bring a paper to read. I’m not sure when I started holding the purse that just happens”
Me: (starting to look around for my wife and thinking, the last thing she said to me was, can you wait out here for me? I’ll only be a minute).
X: (grinning) “Yes son, I was once like you thinking that it’s not going to happen to me. Yet here I sit.”
A few minutes later my wife came out the store, and as I got up to leave Mr. X said to me, “Next time bring a paper, you will need it”
Well I’m not married to my ex anymore (which is why I refer to her as my ex). And my current wife likes to shop about as much as I do so I never find myself sitting on the bench waiting for her except for two weeks ago while she was having her hair done.
Happens a lot…
Where I work we try to make the spouses as comfortable as possible to make it enjoyable, or at least not painful, and yes to prolong the visit.
We have very comfortable “Husband Chairs”, and yes we call them that!
Your daddy knows that bench well!
Ok but at least he wasn’t holding my purse. *grin*
Best one yet!!! LoL