His one and only

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My husband asked me to make a deposit in our account and his mother’s on a day when he was out of town and couldn’t do so.

As the teller handled my mother-in-law’s deposit, she looked at the name and then called me Mrs. H-, which is, of course, also my mother-in-law’s name. I said, “Well, I am one of the Mrs. H–s.”

She stopped and looked up at me and said, “You mean he has two?”

I hadn’t realized how that would sound! I quickly explained that, no, I was the wife and the other Mrs. H– was the mother. She had just been reading a book on polygamy and its problems, so perhaps her mind jumped to that conclusion a little more easily than it might have otherwise.

We had a good laugh over it. She was still chuckling as I left.

9 thoughts on “His one and only”

  1. LOL! Words are so much fun. One can say one thing and someone can hear it exactly and get a completely different plausible answer.

  3. That’s too funny, Barbara.

    When I turned 40, I asked my husband if he was going to trade me in on two 20-year-olds. He replied, “Absolutely not – one is enough trouble!” So that’s how I know I’m loved. 🙂

  4. Too funny! If Mom’s funds weren’t direct deposit, I’m sure I would have come up against this too! We do anyway when we’re out together. I’ll run into old students of mine, and they say Hi Mrs. Lantz! And Mom says HI! They look at her like she’s nuts – but off course, she IS Mrs. Lantz! LOL!

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