Even after a week I'm still chuckling about it.
I think I've written in here before about how a lot of people mention they see Loraine & me walking everywhere. It's just a fact of life; we do walk a lot, a lot of people seem to know who we are, and for whatever reason it sticks in their head. In fact, it's gotten to the point where if someone DOESN'T bring up our walking habit sometime in the course of us knowing them it just seems weird.
But that's life. And it's not what I'm laughing about.
Last week I met someone for the first time. And one of the things she mentioned was about seeing Loraine and me walking everywhere. Only, she phrased it just a little differently than people who know us better. She said that she sees me “and my girlfriend walking everywhere”. And while I do consider Loraine my girlfriend, she is also a little more than that. When I pointed out that we're married, my new acquaintance looked at me and said this--
“Oh, I'm sorry. You look like you actually like each other, so that's my mistake”.
Yup. The reason we don't look like we're married? Because we look like we like each other. Who knew?
8-)
When I mentioned this to my girlfriend Loraine that evening she burst out laughing, and then kinda wondered about the reasoning behind it. Does that mean that people who are married are supposed to look like they DON'T like each other? Are we just weird, and for some reason still have the look that a dating couple has? Is there something in the background of the person I met that leads her to believe you can't be happy & married at the same time?
I'm not sure. I just know that my girlfriend and I just thought it funny. And interesting. And, if I have to admit it, kind of reassuring, too. I mean, I know we like each other. But it's kind of nice to know that other people notice it, too.
See what you get when you walk everywhere, and people notice you doing it?
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