OMG OMG OMG did I have an interesting Halloween night! For the first time in probably 12 years, I had a quiet evening at home. I'm usually out with my D but this year she went to a party. H and I were home alone. I had a REALLY hectic day at work and told him I wanted to chill! We usually don't get trick or treaters as as live in a neighborhood w/o sidewalks and the houses are pretty far apart. Serious trick or treaters hit the big developments so it was quiet for us.
After a glass of wine, we were getting it on like teenagers on the sofa. At the exact moment we were about to get seriously busy (sans clothes) when the doorbell rang! It was after 8 p.m. and first I could only laugh hysterically because the timing was so incredibly bad. He pulled on his pants real quick to go to the door. Then I thought, gee, it's kind of late for trick or treaters.
He gives out the candy, it was only 1 kid. Then instead of closing the door and coming back in the house he stood there watching this kid. Then he took a step farther outside. Then he came in, shut the door but was still looking outside. I said, what's wrong? He said "only 1 kid came to the door, but there were 2 kids and I saw the other one come out from behind my work van in the driveway." He was frantic pulling on his shoes and shirt to get outside. He was afraid he had left the van unlocked and there are lots of valuables in it for work.
He gets outside, and I'm not far behind him. The van is locked, thank God, but the kid had soaped his window and door and wrote "Boo, Sucker" on it. My immediate thought was OW was behind it! I brought it up and he said he didn't think so. I said, there are 3 vehicles in the driveway, and they pick your van and only your van to soap up? Why would one kid come to the door??
About that time, a van drove very slowly past our house -- an older model mini-van with a bright yellow bumper sticker on the back door. OW drives such a van, with a bright yellow Army bumper sticker on the door. I pointed and said, look I bet that's OW! Again, he didn't believe it. But a couple minutes later, we were still outside, and he comes the van again, this time going the other way, very slowly. This time he saw it but couldn't believe it was her.
He called her. At first she denied it, but then admitted it. She put her kids up to it. They also put eggs on the ground. I said, that's a nice thing to put your kids up to! He said her kids can be pretty spiteful. I said why would they be spiteful toward you. He said, cause OW and I had a fling. (I put emphasis there on the word HAD.)
We left a little while later to pick up our D and he wanted me to stop at a drug store and get soap so he could reciprocate the favor to her. I said, why, to be funny or to get back at her? He said, a little of both!! But we didn't. I told him that would probably not go over too good. I didn't want to start anything. But he could not believe that she pulled suck a trick. Neither could he believe that I saw that van and immediately thought she did it. I told him I was much more astute than he was (plus, after being put through the infidelity wringer, you're suspicious of everything, but I didn't tell him that).
The funniest part was that we were 'busy' when her kid came to the door!!!!!!! When he talked to her on the phone, she mentioned that he didn't have a shirt on when he answered the door (she must have been sitting somewhere close in the van). I wonder what she thought of that! It was dark in the house, too. Hmmm .... if she'd been a little closer she would have noticed his belt buckle not quite fastened either! I'm sure she would have been pleased at that!! Too bad.
You know what, H and I talked quite a bit about what happened last night, and us as well ... although he did not come out and say it, he pretty much indicated that it was over between them and that he was committed to me. But since I still have not heard those actual words from his mouth, I will hold off on posting my celebration thread. But I think we're close.
