This is not what you are thinking . . . No trigger warnings required!
My husband and I are talking. He thinks he should read more. I can count on my fingers the number of books he has read since we got married and I can just about still count the years on my fingers too.
I however am an avid reader, in fact we just bought dimming lights, so I am forced to go to sleep once I can no longer see the words on the page/ kindle.
This discussion leads me to confess that I have a problem with the kindle book of the day. I keep buying more and more 99p books at a rate faster than I could ever read them!
He laughs and admits he wandered what I could be buying on amazon with such regularity so cheaply. (He is on it with the financial side of things and regularly reviews our accounts – he could spend everything and I likely wouldn’t realise)
Then he says the words every partner dreads, ‘Actually there is something I should confess to you . . .’a
Heart racing I listen with mounting dread –
‘I’ve been playing the Polish lottery’.
I think I physically sag with relief and express my surprise that as a highly logical engineer and spreadsheet specialist, who keeps such a close eye on our finances he would ever buy in to the stupid tax. However, he proudly reassures me that after his extensive research – the Polish lottery has the best odds!
I know this is a silly little story, but I love that these little surprises turn up after all these years.
Mumma Pod 