Echoes
It's funny how people react when I tell them a number. 25 years. I could mean anything, really. The age of a child. How long I've worked my job. But when used do describe the length of a marriage, people always react the same. 'How do you do it, Dan?', 'What's your secret?', 'Aww, how sweet.' etc. I fucking hate it. Not that I don't enjoy the implied compliment involved in the questions, praising the long hard quiet work that is the modern husband, but in how I have to smile at my wife,...