Will all the news of course cheating and other relationship issues are fresh on people's minds. This sparked a conversation between the father of my children and myself that led to me once again referencing a running joke between him and I. When I was about twenty-two and fresh off of baby number one I noticed that he was beginning to be M.I.A. a lot. My suspicions led me to thinking that he had someone else. So like many young women after one of his excursions I went through his things when he came home. I discovered a receipt from a grocery store that had several suspicious items on it. One that stood out was Palmolive dish washing liquid. I thought maybe he bought some for our household but I didn't see any new bottles of it. When I asked him about it he told me:
Yes sir, I was that gullible. I waited and waited for him to spring this Palmolive surprise on me. While doing so I reminisced about the hand softening qualities of Palmolive as featured in this ad:
So subsequently anytime he said things I knew to be lies to cover up his infidelity I always referenced the Palmolive surprise. Even to this day. Although our relationship ended years ago I never forget to remind him of this from time to time. Which always results in him asking: "Why are you bringing up old stuff?" Now it's a huge joke that we laugh off but back then it was so not funny. Ads like this made me cringe:
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