Reply #16: The Ol' "Have you seen my husband?" routine. [View All]

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I was meeting some people for cocktails on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. My wife decided to stay home.

I got there first, so I sat at the bar and ordered a drink. An attractive woman came in and sat down next to me. We started to chat. We mostly discussed was was on the menu for T-Day Dinner, just small talk.

When the people I was meeting with (mostly work acquaintences) came in they saw me sitting at the bar but took a booth in the back and started spying on me. Guess they thought that they would catch me doin' something I shouldn't oughtta be doing. (This was in Texas, mind you.)

I turned around and located my "friends" and went over to their booth. They were relentless in the amount of crap they were giving me, for no good reason. Especially this one girl, let's call her Mary.

Anyway, when it came time for me to leave, I stopped by the bar to say good-bye to the woman I had been chatting with (it was on the way out) and she asked if I could walk her to her car, since she was alone. So I did. She got in her car, drove away, and I never saw her again.

The next morning I was telling my wife about my evening and we got the idea to call Mary, the who was giving me so much crap the night before. My wife had a rough idea of who was in attendence.

So....my wife calls and says to Mary, "Have you seen Robert? I know he went out with you guys last night, but he's not home yet. I've got the turkey in the oven and all this food to cook, but he never came home last night. The kids are wondering where their Dad is...."

We really had Mary going. She was muttering and making up excuses and didn't know what to say. We finally called back after an hour and fessed up to our prank. It really pissed-off Mary and her husband (who was also there). But it served them right.