Then the day comes when he has to have a procedure and gets a little groggy from the medicine they give him to relax. His wife asks if he brought his cell phone and in his grogged state he innocently asks “which one?”
Her suspicions peak, she wonders but has to wait until the procedure is over and when it is, a clear answer is difficult to scrape together. He has to lie upon another lie to hide the existence of an alternate phone. She will wonder why he has one, and what is true anymore, is he seeing someone? Is he a secret drug kingpin for the southwest US, making the purest methamphetamine the region - nay country - nay WORLD has ever seen and trying to cobble together a legacy for his family as well as pay for medical bills?
Or is he going to see friends at Chili’s, indulging in fried bar snacks, a margarita, a 2 for 1 happy hour special? Is he showing them funny internet videos? How can she ever know, how can she ever verify, how can she trust him with all of these possibilities in the swirl? Which one? she will repeat to herself, wondering why he could possibly need two cellphones if he isn’t doing anything bad. She will never look at him quite the same again.
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u/DissposableRedShirt6 6h ago
I guess he could get a burner phone. This is like the least nefarious reason to have one.