Palmolive surprises and other lies cheaters make up…

13 Dec
2009


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:

“I have a Palmolive Surprise for you.”

Hold on to your hats peo­ple because the killing part is that I believed him. In my mind this is what I was truly expect­ing:

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:

Yes Madge, I was indeed “soak­ing in it”. Days went to weeks and weeks to months and still no Palmolive sur­prise. Trust me, I was in antic­i­pa­tion of it because I asked him about it every day. Eventually the left side of my brain kicked in and the dreamer had to accept that this was a lie. My expec­ta­tion turned to anger because I now real­ized that my Palmolive hopes had been burst into one huge bub­ble.

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:

Just kid­ding. But, what is some ridicu­lous rea­son­ing that a per­son (man or woman) gave you to cover up their trans­gres­sion? (keep it PG please)

photo credit: gift​bas​kets​.com

Thanks for read­ing,

Literary Nobody

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Toya Bryant aka Literary Nobody is a Freelance Writer/Blogger who promotes positive thinking and actions within the community and the family. She also writes about the positives and negatives of technology, internet security and social media.



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