[shnowballs]

Not an actual walk-in but what felt like one.

One day last year, my wife and I were both home on a weekday. I can't recall why, one of us was off, the other WFH I guess. Anyway, at mid-morning my wife heads upstairs to take a shower. We don't have any en-suite bathrooms in our house so she went to the main bathroom.

When she was done, she needed me to get her something from downstairs. She walked naked to the top of the stairs and shouted for me. She knew I'd feel less like a servant if I got rewarded with the view. :-)

I heard her and started walking in the direction of the foot of the stairs, to see what was up. As I did so I shouted out something like "What's up?" or whatever. And then I came around the corner and arrived at the stairs. What I saw was my wife suddenly burst out laughing and nearly double over (while still naked!) with some unknown hilarity.

What had happened?

The fact you need to know is that we live quite close (less than 30 mins) from my father. He's retired and welcome in our house any time. Anyway, as she stood there in the buff, she heard me call out those words but (unsurprisingly I guess) I can from time-to-time sound just like my dad. In the space of about half a second her brain suddenly leapt to the conclusion that her father-in-law must have called in while she was in the shower and it was in fact HIM who was about to walk around the corner and be... rewarded with the view.

While her brain had this thought it also decided to completely freeze on her, in terms of deciding what she should actually DO at that point. Cover up? Run back in the direction of the bathroom? Fall flat on the ground like some sort of behind-enemy-lines soldier? Her brain couldn't make up its mind so it did nothing and she was stuck there, presumably about to completely flash my father.

So when it was actually me who came around the corner, the relief that flashed over her was so intense that it resulted in the doubled-over laughter that I then got to see.