My trip to the barber this morning was unsettling. As soon as I sat down, he asked me how married life has been.
I said, "She's great and I couldn't picture my life without her. But sometimes she drives me completely insane. And she does it on purpose."
He looked at me knowingly and said, in his thick Russian accent, "You know, every dog wanders off the leash once in a while to a bar or something."
I contemplated the sight of my childhood dog in the local pub while I thought he was running through the woods.
Then I asked him naively, "With all the news about cheating lately, I am just disappointed in everyone else's view of marriage. I am starting to wonder whether everybody cheats."
He replied, "Not everybody cheats. But all men cheat. That's what makes the marriage last so many years."
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