The WRONG man
Posted by Lucky Dorito on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Memory Lane Monday takes us back to 1992. My hubby and I were in the relatively early dating days. I suppose I should make sure you know that my hubby and I never actually lived in the same town until after we’d gotten married. We dated for almost 4 years - all long-distance. We talked on the phone a LOT and cherished our time together.
I would drive to his home in south-eastern Georgia at least once a month to spend a weekend… or as many days as I could spare. At some point that summer, we decided to take a few days and make a little “road trip” together to Jacksonville, Fl, where my sister Lina and her family were living at the time.
We stayed overnight with them a night or two and decided since we were so close, to make a day trip over to St. Augustine (the oldest settled city in the United States). There were lots of little shops in the old part of town (as best I remember, that is) and we were going to spend the day sightseeing and window-shopping.
We found ourselves in a little shop bursting at the seams with Christmas items (in the middle of summer) and we were just looking around. It was a very narrow shop, with every square inch of space filled - items on display both on the tables and on the walls. While we were looking around, out of the corner of my eye, I see my hubby wander up closely on my right-hand side. I reached out my right arm and wrapped it around his waist, without looking up at him.
Almost simultaneously… I felt a tap on my left shoulder. I looked to the left and saw my hubby standing there looking at me.
Huh? Wait… that means…… if HE is there on my left … then WHO do I have my right arm wrapped around?????
I whipped my head to the right and SOME OTHER MAN was there and MY ARM was wrapped around HIM!
GASP! SHRIEK! HOLY MOLY!!!
Well, color me EMBARRASSED!!
The man was looking at me in surprise and I immediately jerked my arm away and started apologizing while turning 15 shades of red! I was stammering and stuttering, trying to explain. (Really, how does one explain that??) My hubby started laughing at my major faux-pas, saying “You gotta watch her” to the man … adding to my embarrassment. I didn’t think it was remotely funny at the time because I was SO stinkin embarrassed but now, with the passage of a lot of years… I can laugh about it. Needless to say, My hubby has NEVER let me live it down.
It’s one of his favorite stories to tell people. It kinda cracks me up too though… so, I don’t mind. 
In my defense, I’ll tell you that out of the corner of my eye, when the man walked up closely - I could see his white t-shirt (which was the color my hubby was also wearing) and he came up and stood VERY close to me - invading my *bubble* of personal space. So…. I just assumed it was my hubby because usually people do NOT do that. Yep… you know what they say about when you assume things, right?
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Beccaon 30 Jun 2008 at 9:43 am 1I can see why he would never let you live that down! Too stinking funny!
Ask me sometime to tell you about a certain injury I got once upon a time! That might even make you snort!
Love ya!
LOL Yeah, the snortin’ secret is out of the bag!
thotladyon 30 Jun 2008 at 1:13 pm 2Very funny. I have done that talking to my husband when he wasn’t there and someone else had taken his spot, but never actually touched a stranger in that way.
That is funny.;)
megon 30 Jun 2008 at 5:46 pm 3Whoops!
I guess it could have been worse…
maybe…
nope- that’s pretty bad
LOL Gee thanks, Meg!
Jenon 30 Jun 2008 at 7:47 pm 4That would have been funny to see!
I remember when I was a little kiddo (maybe 4 or 5) at the bank with my dad. I wandered off for a minute and when I came back to the teller window where he was standing, I reached around and hugged his leg. A few seconds passed when my dad called me from the entryway of the bank “Jenny! Are you coming with me or are you gonna stay with him?” I looked up and realized I was hugging another man’s leg with bluejeans on and a shirt the same color as my father’s. I was SO embarrassed!!! The poor guy I was hanging on was frozen — he didn’t know what to do with a little girl clinging to his leg!
My dad loves to tell that story… just like your husband does.
Yeah…. always telling the stories to embarrass us! In my case, they are plentiful though!
Guinieon 30 Jun 2008 at 10:00 pm 5LOL M almost did something sort of like this once. He wasn’t really paying much attention and came up behind “me”, while talking to “me”…and ALMOST went so far as to wrap his arms around “my” waist…when the woman he was approaching turned around…and it wasn’t me!!! lol I laughed so hard I cried!!! Luckily, he didn’t get as close as he could’ve and I’m not even sure she was aware of what almost happened! lol
Oh funny! Can you imagine had he actually done it? She might have clubbed him!
wahzaton 01 Jul 2008 at 5:55 pm 6LOL
hahahahahahahaha
hahahahah
this is soo funny I would be beyond mortified LOL
well at least you two have a great sense of humour about it LOL!!1
your trip looked and sounded AWESOME!!
keeping on enjoying your summer
Jeanon 01 Jul 2008 at 5:57 pm 7How funny! I know that store.. your eyes are so in there, I’m not surprised you didn’t look around! I lived in Jax for eight years.. I LOVE St Aug.. It’s one of my folks fav places to go when they visited us. I’ve grabbed the wrong kid once, but not the wrong man!!LOL
hugs,
Jean
I’ve never grabbed the wrong kid but I have been in a store or something and answered to the call of *Mommmm…..* to find out it was NOT my child yelling for me!
Jeanon 01 Jul 2008 at 5:58 pm 8Sorry, your eyes are so “busy” in that store.. didn’t make much sense, did I??LOL
< strong>Ha ha ha