Subject: I can tell by the smell
Dear Steve and Shirley, Iâve been married for almost 40 years. I have a 38 year old son that has moved back into my house and my husband is overjoyed to have a running buddy. They are out from sun up to sun down on Saturdays and I was cool with it at first, until one of my sonâs friends approached my husband and I at the grocery store recently. Her name is Muriel and sheâs got a small restaurant that a lot of single men and women hang out at, eating, drinking and carrying on. I didnât know that my husband was hanging out at Murielâs until I smelled her. She smelled like she had been in the kitchen and then sprayed cheap body spray over the grease smell in her clothes. That is what my husband smells like when he comes in late at night with our son. I asked her how things were going down at her restaurant and she said things are going great and looked at my husband. I stayed tight lipped until we got in the car. I asked if heâd been hanging out at her place and he said itâs a place for our sonâs friends, not an old man like him. His clothes sure do smell like heâs been to Murielâs a few times and he even had a little of Murielâs fragrance on his shirt before. He couldnât possibly be messing around with Muriel because she is not a petite woman. Heâs 5â9â and Muriel is a tall woman. I could not get the truth out of my husband nor my son. My son said he hangs out there sometimes, but his dad is never with him. I asked him where his dad is, while heâs hanging out at Murielâs and he said he didnât know. I am too old to be driving by Murielâs, looking around for my husband. If nothing is going on, why does he smell like a cafĂŠ? Why wonât they tell me the truth?