my 2nd wife.... my second wife...

seriously, when is there a need to start numbering your spouses??

so this is yet another anecdote from my coaching conference...lastnight was the first night dinner, i was kinda nervous - being a clear introvert in a country where i don't speak enough of the lingo to understand most of what is going on, and being tired (i'm still on new york time), i had to force myself to go, and honestly, i'm actually glad that i did as i met 3 or 4 really nice women (thru my new friend julie) and we ended up having quite a laugh...

so picture this: we are in the depths of a conversation about how to handle a drop dead gorgeous client (it happens, of course it does and even though we are coaches, we are women and human...)...we got talking and another of my new friends, chantal, was telling us about a guy who propositioned her to come to the US and do some 'coaching' with him - all was going well until she told him that she would need a double room so her husband could come with her - suffice it to say, she didn't go to the US to coach this guy! hilarious...

so six women, at a table, in the corner, having a good old laugh and this short grey haired english man (who's badge says he's from poland) arrives at our table and says 'this looks serious'....truth be told none of us really knew what to say and i guess we may have been a wee bit embarrassed, as if he'd heard our topic of conversation i doubt we would have been too pleased....

sooo we do our best to accomodate him and talk to him and i say to him (hearing he has a very strong english accent) 'surely you aren't a native of poland'....and of course to him this is his invitation to tell his life story (which i have to say was not overly interesting....go figure!)....he tells us that he drove from there to here and i ask how long that took, he says 18 hours and i asked why on earth didn't you just fly, then he says he was 'instructed' (his word) to buy a heap of stuff in luxembourg and so the car made it easier...so then i say is your wife polish, and he says 'yes, my 2nd wife'.....

well all of us girls just looked at each other and raised our eye-brows...
 
so it turns out that he was on a trip with his wife of 25 years and half way through he turns to her and says "i can't do this anymore, i don't want to play this game" whereby he leaves and ups and goes to poland on the train which is where he met his 2nd wife.. 

i'm still wondering why he felt the need to tell us that she was his 2nd wife.....maybe it's a bloke thing? maybe it's a short bloke thing? perhaps he is simply racking up the numbers? who knows, but it amused me and the girls....