October 08, 2004

Where's your wife?


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Picture taken by Paolo.
I have left the wife at the in-laws and returned home on my own to go to some art event tonight. She is returning tomorrow once she has finished bickering with her family. Meanwhile all our neighbours are eyeing me suspiciously since I arrived back in the car on my own this afternoon having departed with Yol yesterday. The casual "Yol not with you?" belies their concern that something terrible has happened to her and that I am the perpetrator.

It reminds me of the story about someone called David who had a flatmate who had a cat that pissed everywhere. When the flatmate was out one day David drove the cat out to the countryside and dumped it miles away. He pretended that the cat had run away. It was David's ex-wife who told me the story so it must be true.

Unlike a cat Yol has a very good sense of direction.

Posted by catfunt at October 8, 2004 05:46 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I sympathise. I think my neighbours think I'm having an affair as I regularly pull up outside our house in the dark and make a few last calls in the relative peace of the car before I enter into the onslaught of toddler-dom noise attack. In fact, my nosey neighbour Brian made a point of coming up to me only this morning, put his arm around me and asked me if everything was alright in I must say a rather searching tone.

Funny.

Croatia looks nice.
x

Posted by: astrid at October 8, 2004 09:19 PM

I swear to god she'll be back later today. (My life feels like a Jim Thompson novel crossed with bad chick-lit at the moment). I have to hotwire the car every time I want to drive it (looks kinda cool though opening the hood to start and stop the engine) but my main anxieties are the bread and butter of chick-lit (am i drinking/smoking too much? the house is a mess? am i turning into my dad/mum?).

Posted by: Paolo at October 9, 2004 09:35 AM

And why do the neighbours keep looking at me so weirdly......

Posted by: astrid at October 9, 2004 03:21 PM

Is she back yet? I hope so, I don't want you to turn into an episode of Without A Trace, or as my mum calls it Where Have They Gone?

Posted by: J-Bo at October 12, 2004 10:40 PM

She is back.

BTW the David referred to earlier is David Jackson for those who know him. Perhaps information most useful to the flatmate who the cat belonged to...

Posted by: Paolo at October 16, 2004 12:11 AM