Tied to the Whipping Post

[Punktmann]

Today, she went to work on a Saturday, and I did some chores and went shopping w/ the boys. She came home just in time for a late lunch, and after lunch, she was talking to me, and mentioned that she had had a hard couple of days. I said I hope that I didn’t contribute to that too much, and that I wish that I had done more listening than talking last night. She said "no, you were fine."

She hemmed and hawed about it a bit, but then said, I got a call from Polly (The original OM's W,) day before yesterday, she wanted to meet with me. I asked her about what? She said that Polly had received a phone call from a man who said that she and OM were having an A. She said that she met with Polly, and Polly asked her Are you sleeping w/ my husband?, and W said no. Polly asked her are you friends w/ my H, and W said yes. Polly asked her do you go to lunch w/ my H? and W said no, I go to the gym w/ my friend ABC. Polly asked again, are you friends w/ my H, and W said, yes, I just told you that I am. Polly said I don’t want you to be friends w/ my H. W said to me, if that is what she wants then I won’t be friends w/ her H.

W said that Polly called her again on Friday and they talked some more but that it was just the same things again.

So W said that I have had a hard couple of days, and it is all my own fault.

I said that fault is a word that implies meaning to do something, and that I don’t like the word. I said that b/c she presented it as surprising that Polly would believe this. I was not wanting to be accusatory, but more to wait and see what she said (or didn't say.)

W broke off the convo, and I left it alone and STFU.


At one point, I did ask her if Polly knew who it was that called, and W said she had a phone number, but that she couldn't get anyone to answer her calls. I said that if she had the phone number, she should be able to figure out who it was. I stopped short of offering to help figure that out. It’s not my problem.


I know that W was at least a little bit trying to see if I was the one who called OM’s W, but since I wasn’t, and my demeanor didn’t show that, I think that she either didn’t think I did, or is still undecided.


W spent the next few minutes griping about who would do something like that, just to wreck OM's career, and life.

Ok, I validated, but sorry, no sympathy here.

She also said that she told Polly that she thought OM should quit his job at the company, and that some people were out to get him. She said that she thought it was interesting that Polly said that she had told OM the same thing.

I spent most of this time listening and validating what she was going through.

I never said anything about her and the OM, or the situation in general, I mostly just listened.


I have thought about calling Polly for a long time, but I never did. It seems that I didn't have to, someone else did it for me.

There has been a lot of talk at her job about W and OM, and it finally came to a head.

At one point, W told me that OM's boss told him that he should watch himself, or someone would call his W about him and my W.

Also, W told me once a couple of years ago that OM had told her that his W suspected that they were having an A. She seemed to think that this was weird, and that I should also think it was weird.

I didn’t think it weird; b/c there was an EA going on at the very least. WTF?

After the D bomb, some rumors started flying at her job about W and OM, and W blamed me for starting them. Of course, it came to nothing, since I hadn’t.



Very interesting though.