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She Must REALLY Be Mad

By Andy on 2 December 2005 late at night
Category: Marriage

I must have done something to make my wife mad, but for the life of me I don’t know what I did.

Here’s the situation: I’m on a tight deadline trying to finish up a website for a January 1st launch. It’s now midnight and I’ve been up since 4:30am. I’m not just beat. I’m beat down. I stumble out of the office and almost run into the couch. We had just moved it to make room for the Christmas tree. As I shuffle toward the bedroom like a calf on the end of a branding rope, I imagine the joy of climbing into my comfy bed beside my true love. I reach for the door knob…

Noooo! It’s locked. Yessirree I’m locked out of my bedroom.

It’s kind of a long story, but we routinely lock our bedroom door. So there’s a very good chance that she’s not mad at me all. She could have just locked the door out of habit…which is more characteristic of something I would do.

Now I am faced with two options:

  1. I can either wake her up and have her unlock it. This would mean good sleep for me. But Tiffany’s a very light sleeper and has been having a hard time going back to sleep when she’s awoken in the middle of the night.
  1. Or I can sleep on the couch tonight. The sleep would probably not be great. However, I could win a few brownie points, and I’m all about brownie points.

Which do I choose? Well, what would you do if faced with a similar situation.

  1. Honestly?

    — Kaye    Dec 2, 08:58 AM    #

  2. Honestly, Kaye. What would you do?

    — Andy    Dec 2, 10:02 AM    #

  3. I wasn’t mad at all! I’m just in the habit of locking the bedroom door when we go to bed. I forgot Andy was staying up. He could have used the key above the door to come in if he had thought it through!

    — Tiffany    Dec 2, 02:02 PM    #

  4. LOL poor Andy. I guess he was so tired he didn’t remember the key was there.

    I am not married but I probably would have knocked (if she didn’t have a problem going back to sleep of course) and if she didn’t open up then I’d go sleep on the couch.

    — Yannick    Dec 2, 02:17 PM    #

  5. When in doubt, assume the best and conclude she’s not angry. Married for many years, I would take the couch and let her sleep. This time.

    For the future, if the bedroom door is “routinely” locked, I would make sure I had a key(!)

    — Mike Montgomery    Dec 2, 02:46 PM    #

  6. Well , sometimes it is hard for me to stay off of my ‘Jump to Conclusions Mat’ (courtesy of Office Space)....but….. I think you made the smartest choice… ALWAYS err on the side of caution….and cook breakfast the next morning!!

    — Kaye    Dec 2, 03:10 PM    #

  7. I would have knocked!!

    — Susan    Dec 5, 09:05 AM    #

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