Wow, My Husband Just Lost His Mind

This weekend, I am taking a trip to visit some good friends I've made via SpouseBUZZ: Heather S and AirForceWife.  And AirForceFamily has some sort of Super Mega Secret Surprise cooked up for me on Tuesday.  I have no idea what it is, and my husband is the insanely curious type.  I was just telling him about this Surprise when he called me from Iraq, and we had this hilarious exchange:

Sarah: I have no idea what they have planned.
Husband: I wonder what it is.  You'll have to call me when you get home Tuesday night and tell me.
Sarah: Um, honey, I can't call you.
Husband:  Huh?  Oh yeah.
Sarah: (Uproarious laughter)

I'll call you, husband, as soon as you give me your phone number!

Comments

[army_wife]

LOL! My husband is "insanely curious" also! It's hard sometimes for me to have a surprise for him because if he knows there is a surprise he will pester me to death until I tell him what it is. Makes me nuts, but I love him! :-)

[P.D.]

I had a business that INSISTED on a phone number for my husband for some form. So I gave them......

1-800-DEP-LOYD

[Sarah]

Hahahaha. P.D., it took me a second to get it, but that's funny!

[Brando]

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a direct line to call them? When my hubby was deployed and something important was happening, or even just funny that I wanted to share, I'd automatically reach for the cell phone to call him. Then I'd get past the momentary mind loss and remember "oh yeah, I have to wait for him to get a chance to call me!"

What was nice was that I was able to text message his email on my phone so that often I got an instant reply from him via text message. It was almost as good as being able to call him. Almost.

[airforcewife]

Oh, I did the texting/email thing, too!

It was very cumbersome for the more, ahem, private conversations, though.

Thank the Lord for Google Talk. :)

And by the way, you have NO IDEA how hard it is for me to keep a secret surprise. NO IDEA. When the TMI Queen keeps a secret, lives have to be at stake. :)

[Penny]

hehe Sarah.. It was vice versa with us, I'd be so excited about something and I'd tell Dh I would call him to let him know.. oh wait..

P.D. - I wondered if they ever figured it out hehe..

While he was deployed, Dh kept getting letters about his high school reunion and they wouldn't release any information in reference to the call even though I told them he was deployed and I was his wife. Finally they asked me when he would be returning (this was last Spring) so without hesitation I simply replied " sometime in 2008."

(silence) "Oh. Well, we just needed to verify his mailing address."

Oy vey.. lol ..

[Marine Wife]

P.D., I actually got a call from someone doing a DoD survey. When they couldn't talk to my husband, they asked when would be a good time to call back ("next year, he's deployed") and then they wanted a phone number. I couldn't resist, since it was a DoD survey, and suggested they would have a better idea of what his phone number might be than me.

[angela]

Before hubby deployed we called and told at&t to cut our phone sevice off the next month. I was moving to live with family and hubby would be deployed. Every single day some guy who could barely speak English called trying to get us to not cancel. He would try and talk my hubby into taking his phone line with him to Iraq. He just didn't get it. One day after several days of this guy calling and bugging us hubby started yelling "I am not going to Iraq to live! I can't take the line with me! I will be in the middle of war! Stop calling us!" That didn't help the guy still called everyday asking why we were upset with them and why my hubby wouldn't just take the line with him they would make him a great deal. I have no idea where this guy has been to not have a clue about world events. Then one day someone who spoke English called and hubby told her what was going on and I don't think she believed us but they never called again.

[liberal army wife]

I used to get calls from a school he had shown some interest in, or mailed a card in or something. And I'd tell them, he's deployed... "when will he be back, sometime this weekend would it be convenient"... This weekend... NO, this isn't a 9-5 M-F thing...

He had a cell phone - but where he worked - no cells allowed! No cameras either, so I didn't get to see the 50th Birthday surprise, or the promotion.

But honestly, civilians DON'T have any idea. I posted on my blog that a twinkie at work (ok, so she's getting an MBA, she's still stooooopid) asked if I had gone with him to Iraq. um.... speechless - and that takes a LOT, to render me speechless.

LAW

[dizzylizzie]

yep, i had an aunt just this weekend ask if he could "at least come home on weekends?" i was stupified. i laughed and said sarcastically "oh yeah, well you know, that part is ok i guess" she looked a bit confused so said "oh sh-- wait, are you being serious?"
i mean i can understand strangers thinking like that but my own family? geesh..

[She of the Sea]

Ya'll are cracking me up...I can never decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the, "When would be a good time to contact him?" question. Which part of deployed is so hard to understand? I guess I'm a little spoiled in that I expect people to have some sort of understanding of the world arround them. Sheesh!