A couple of days ago my husband and I were sitting on the couch catching up on this week’s episode of NCIS. The Director of NCIS, played by Lauren Holly, was talking to Special Agent Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon, about a case they were working on involving a man who was engaged to multiple women at the same time. She was talking about how even if you are in a relationship with someone, you may not really know them. They might be keeping secrets from you.
“I don’t have any secrets from you,” I told my husband.
“I know!” he replied. Due to some quirk in my own personal makeup, I can neither lie nor keep secrets. It’s like any kind of secret information is a foreign body in my system, and I must vomit it up and out as soon as possible in order to keep my system running smoothly.
“What about you?” I asked him. “Do you have any secrets?”
“Nope,” he said, and we went back to watching the show.
In the next scene Dr. “Ducky” Mallard is talking to Agent Gibbs about the corpse he is examining. “I got a hunch and I decided to trim his (the corpse’s) nose hair,” said Dr. Mallard.
At this my husband pauses the show (all hail the awesomeness of TIVO!), leaps up off the couch, and says, “Oh yeah, I do have a secret from you.”*
Oh, dear sweet Lord In Heaven, I thought to myself, completely panicked. What the hell kind of secret does “nose hair” remind you of?!
“Um, that’s okay, dude,” I said, backing away from him. “You can just go ahead and keep that particular secret to yourself.”
*It turned out all right, though. For some reason I still don’t completely understand, that just reminded him that he’d brought me back a present from Mexico.
Ha ha ha. So what did he bring you back from Mexico?
Amazingly that episode also caused us to have a brief discussion. Dang where is the mindless TV! 🙂
So what did he bring you back from Mexico?
He brought me one of those touristy souvenir spoons which I love and collect.
Dang where is the mindless TV!
Yes!
What a good guy!
I’m sure he wasn’t thinking about his nose hairs because when he bought the spoon, he raised it up to his face like a mirror, and because it reflected upside-down, he saw into his nose and all the nose hair that needed to be trimmed.
I’m certain that’s not why he thought of it at that very moment.
I’m certain that’s not why he thought of it at that very moment.
Oh…yeah…not at all…(worried now) :p
Glad it was a good secret! 🙂
Me too!!
I wonder how long it would have taken him to remember if you weren’t watching that show? Hope it wasn’t something perishable!
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LMBO, too funny! I think I would have reacted the same way, except maybe while holding a butter knife or something. ROFL
I wonder how long it would have taken him to remember if you weren’t watching that show?
Good question-I never thought about that.
He was between me and the room with all the knives 😛