Men.

A Rebuttal. :-)

When he left for his little trip to Kentucky, a hotbed of government agency knowledge and testing, I asked when he'd be coming back. He said he didn't know, but sometime late Saturday. I asked, "Night?" and he nodded but didn't know what flight number it was.

Now, previously, Linda from work had invited me and Rob to go hiking with her and her church group, their first big hike of the year. I was going to take Rob and the cherubs and spend the day in the mountains of Issaquah together with my coworker and some of her buddies. Since Rob was going to be away (he planned this trip just last week, probably when the idea of hiking on a Saturday morning struck him as a bad idea and the only way to graciously back out was to blame work) it was just me and the cherubs.

The hike was pretty strenuous, actually, and I'm not sure if Rob would have enjoyed the return portion which was pretty steeply downhill. The boys and I had a good time though, pausing to buy something more exciting than tap water on the way home. There's something about strenuous physical activity that calls for corn syrup-based drinks. :-)

We returned home to find Rob languishing. Our jaws dropped. I apologized for keeping him waiting, but wasn't he supposed to arrive much later in the day -- like, at night? Rob grumbled something in return and despite my best efforts to feed him, he grumbled all the way to the bedroom where he then took a long nap. All I could get from him till then was stuff about drinking heavily and starting a bar fight by pouring beer down the back of some poor young girl's low-rider jeans.

And so, I say again. Men! :-)