home alone

Last Friday I was out running errands (ie: at the book store checking out all the new releases) and I got a phone call from my brother in law Doug.  I was somewhat alarmed because while I speak to him often he rarely calls my phone.  The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hello

Doug: Hey I’m at your house and you’re not here

Me: who is this?

Doug: you’re favorite person

Me: ha, yah right!! (as I figure out who it is)

Doug: I’m at your house and I need to run somewhere, my girlfriend is here and she wants to stay here while I run my errand.  Ricky told me that I had to call you and ask you if it was ok for him to be here with her alone.

Me: ha, okay.  It’s ok with me if you leave her there.  Why are you calling me tho?  Why not Rick?

Doug: Because he said he would get in trouble if you came home and he was here with some strange woman you’ve never met. 

Me: oh I see, it’s good that he’s afraid of me!

Doug: yes, yes I guess it is.

Honestly, I trust Rick when it comes to the “other women” issue.  I have longheld trust issues regarding money, etc etc etc because of a bad first marriage but oddly enough when it comes to fidelity, he’s nothing if not faithful.  However, after I had a good laugh at the realization that if I came home and found him in the house with a woman that until Friday I had never met, I could not tell you what my reaction might be.  I think Rick was simply insuring that he would live another day.