My wife is furious when I miss a meeting for no real reason (like work). If I claim illness she pretends to understand but then she goes on about how upset she is that I am missing the meetings and she can't understand how missing it isn't upsetting me. That or she will make some comment about how she went to the meeting with a stomachache or how her mom had to pull kids to the meeting in a wagon back in 1973.
I am one of the people that cannot fade. My wife is too crazy. It's like living with a mini-member of the governing body in my house.
She's not bad all the time but when it comes to going to meetings (because we are told to), she is deadly serious. She was going to go out of town this weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) to see a friend graduate from college but the drive back is like 6 hours and she would have missed the meeting on Sunday (the horror!!!!).
Sometimes she is sick. If she doesn't want me to stay and take care of her she will tell me I need to go to the meeting. Usually what I do is put on a shirt and tie, go into the Hall before the meeting, shake a few hands before the first song starts, and then I go to Best Buy or Target. I burn a couple of hours and then go home. That way people have seen me, I don't have to lie and say I wen't when I didn't, and I didn't have to go to the meeting!
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