I was going to respond more coherently as soon as I'd thought out enough, but now I'm feverish enough to not be able to think out enough. I liked reading your original post and the thought trails it was starting to produce in my head. (especially the idea of a 24-7 sub being turned on by jealousy. All sorts of thought fodder. If the thoughts came home so I could feed them) Fun stuff to think on. Or try to.
This is just to commiserate on the Mrs. HisLastName assumption. I'm both married and legally married to Arlo, but we have different last names. We're also handling affairs for his parents (two different last names; he and his father share last name) while they're gallivanting. Most of the callers assume I'm Mrs. HisLastName, I can't tell which of the two hims they actually want, and some small percentage are actually legitimate. It's driving me mildly crazy.
If you could find a way to be sweetly baffled, Miss Manners style, at why people were referring to you as Kevin Marsh rather than him, that would be wonderfully evil. Especially if you could work in some rhetoric about how referring to people's marriage status is so outdated, and really, he prefers to be known as Mr. Unless it's just telemarketers and other people you don't feel forced to talk with.
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This is just to commiserate on the Mrs. HisLastName assumption. I'm both married and legally married to Arlo, but we have different last names. We're also handling affairs for his parents (two different last names; he and his father share last name) while they're gallivanting. Most of the callers assume I'm Mrs. HisLastName, I can't tell which of the two hims they actually want, and some small percentage are actually legitimate. It's driving me mildly crazy.
If you could find a way to be sweetly baffled, Miss Manners style, at why people were referring to you as Kevin Marsh rather than him, that would be wonderfully evil. Especially if you could work in some rhetoric about how referring to people's marriage status is so outdated, and really, he prefers to be known as Mr. Unless it's just telemarketers and other people you don't feel forced to talk with.