Same but…. Roofing company.
Them: Will you wife be there?
Me: No
Them: When can you wife be there?
Me: My wife isn’t interested. You’ll just be dealing with me.
Them: We really need your wife to be there.
Me: I can guarantee you my wife will not be here.
Them: I’m sorry we can’t schedule a meeting unless your wife is there.
Me: Ok. Bye.
True Story: Reported to my first permanent duty station in Germany. As part of orientation, you had a newcomer welcome book and had to get a stamp from a variety of places to show that you had learned where everything was…. The PX, the commissary, the housing office, the post office, etc…. and the kaserne library. I got the stamps and took the book back to the S-1. We chatted about the orientation tour, and I mentioned that everything had gone very well except I couldn’t understand a word that the German lady who ran the library had said. He looked at me and said, “Do you mean Captain Castro‘s wife?” I replied, “Captain Castro is married to a German?“ He laughed and said she’s not German, she’s from the Bronx.
@PatchoSombrero@jtLOL I’m sorry. Your buddy was in the national guard and didn’t expect that he would have to “national guard?” What did he think the words “against all enemies foreign and domestic” meant? What did he think the purpose of his monthly/annual drills were for?