FOR THE LAST 21 YEARS, I have had to face this question, “Does your wife work?”
I have always wondered how to answer that question. Actually the question itself bewilders me because I have never seen anybody’s wife who does not “not work”.
Did I sleep through some announcement which said, “A million dollars grand prize if you discover the one wife in the world who doesn’t work”?

I usually answer their question by saying, “Yes, she works. She’s a housewife you see.”
The part I omit is, “And she works a bit more than me. 10x more I’d say. And because I’m busy helping humanity, I have no time to wash my underwear and put Harpic on the toilet seats. So guess who does that? That too without complaining. And for no pension and no pay.

I’m not the best husband on the planet (I’m far from it actually), but I acknowledge that I am able to do what I do, earn what I earn and achieve what I achieve because she does what she does. I am nobody without her.
That’s probably why she is my better half.”

Good I omit that part, because some people would get offended if I’d say that, although it’s the truth. It’s weird how in the enlightened age of Alexa many people still look down on housewives.
I really need to get their world. And they need to get that of a housewife’s. It’s anything but easy.