Following is a text conversation between my wife and me last weekend. I'm not sure if there's anything I need to be worried about but would appreciate your thoughts.
For some background, my wife's name is Rebecca. While practically everyone calls her Becky, she tells me she doesn't like that nickname and I should call her Rebecca. I guess she doesn't want to seem whiney or petty to her friends. Also, our friend is Pete. He used to live in our town and we were good friends with him and his wife Tammy. Rebecca and Pete would play tennis together a few times a month but now he and his wife moved away. He is an airline mechanic so he can get really cheap flights back to our town if there's an open seat. Rebecca really likes those sorts of professions, where you work on cars, or trucks, carpentry, roofing, stuff like that... macho kinds of jobs. I'm a CPA and she really doesn't seem too impressed with me working on people's taxes or doing estate planning.
Anyway, here's the text.
Me: Hey, are you coming home soon? It's almost dinner time.
Rebecca: O, wow, sorry. Guess who's in town.
Me: No idea, who?
Rebecca: Pete!! He had some time over the weekend so he came to visit.
Me: O cool. Is he coming for dinner? Is Tammy with him?
Rebecca: No, in fact we just sat down for dinner at a restaurant. I met him here.
Me: Oh really? Where, I'll meet you there.
Rebecca: I know you've been slaving away on the yard today, and we have a lot of catching up to do. Besides, we already ordered.
Me: Why didn't you tell me?
Rebecca: Sorry, just slipped my mind.
Me: So where's Tammy?
Rebecca: She had to work long weekend shifts to cover for someone.
Me: Ok, so when will you be home?
Rebecca: Not sure yet. We're eating now, talk later.
A while later...
Me: How was dinner?
Rebecca: It was good.
Me: Are you on your way home?
Rebecca: Not yet, we're going to the tennis shop to visit some friends there and I need new gloves so Pete's going to help me pick some out.
Me: Ok. Let me know when you're on your way home.
Rebecca: Ok.
A while later...
Me: Are you on your way home yet?
Rebecca: No, we stopped for a drink with a couple friends we saw at the store.
Me: Who?
Rebecca: You don't know them, you don't play tennis.