She stood there, still dressed in her work clothes as I thumbed through my phone. "Something's up," she muttered, swinging on the doorway as I scowled at the hand-held electronics in my hand. I could see the hem of her dress in the reflection on the scratched screen, the feint green tartan replacing the toolbar and my attention.
"Just work." That was true, of sorts; work was the main cause of my frustration most of the time, throwing the phone onto the table with a clatter. "Pete wants me to work this weekend," I growled. "He's always doing that to me. Doesn't care that I might have something planned."
"Oh baby," she soothed. "It's ..."
"... and my new guitar strings haven't come. Express delivery I paid for. 24 hours max." She moved to my side, stroking my arm as my memories of the delivery app reporting "out for delivery" three days in succession further riled me. "And," I said with clenched fists. "And, I have a headlight out on my car."
"Oh well that's easily sorted."
"I know it is. It's just one more thing. And I had a comment I wrote deleted by the blog owner just because it eschewed her point of view."
"Honey," she soothed. "It's not worth getting wound up about."
"I'm not wound up! It's just little things irritate me, they add up. And I can't deal with pettiness. It riles me. It's rampant disrespect and utter pettiness."
My wife giggled and slipped her hand onto my crotch. "I could make you forget it," she whispered seductively. "I could ... do that special thing."
I wasn't in the mood. "Later," I replied, a little too abruptly. "I need ..."
"To burn through the aggression first?" She finished for me. "Then you know I can help with that too."