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I love my wife. I start this story with that caveat because I am about to reveal an embarrassing moment in her life. Being a mom, you have to put up with certain abuse from your kids; especially when they transform into teenagers. Part of my job as husband and father is to fend off the kids’ abuse as much as possible, not fan the flames and encourage their behavior.
One afternoon, I took it upon myself to try out the video function of our digital camera we had just received as a Christmas gift. Typically the video capture function is not that good, so I was testing it in the hopes of defending my position that we needed a new camcorder as well. Moving around the house while recording, I walked in on my wife ironing some clothing while listening to her ipod. She was getting into the song, singing off key, as she even claims she does, doing some sort of dance I have never witnessed before. Trying hard not to laugh, I captured about 4 minutes worth of footage before she realized what is going on and ceased production. I explained to her it was merely a test I was performing, and would delete it from the memory card once I saw how it converted over to the PC.
The next day, while sitting at the computer, I invite our teenage daughter to view the video clip, and we both nearly died of hysterical laughter. I blame her for coming up with the idea, but we decided to download it to a family website to share with our dear and closest family and friends. Take into consideration that my immediately family consists of nearly 40 members; all who have access to the site and check it often. The following week, we attended a function at my mother’s house, and everyone came up to my wife laughing, congratulating her on her newest release. Being confused, she turns to look at my daughter and I, both of us trying hard not to burst out. Being the smart woman she is it didn’t take her long to figure out what was going on. That night was a quiet, cold ride home. I immediately went into our house and deleted the video from both the website, as well as the hard drive. I took my verbal reprimand for punishment, and was grateful I didn’t have to sleep on the sofa that night.
As much as it was not right to take advantage of a situation like that and disregard my wife’s feelings, it still was funny. I still have a copy of the video on my laptop, although I will never tell her. I look at it from time to time and think quietly to myself how I am married to that crazy woman, and it makes me smile.
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