Sow There!

Sometimes its difficult to know whether your significant other has really heard you.
You know how it is: They listen, but do they really listen?
The other day I wanted to have one of those “serious” conversations.
I know it’s the winter blahs, but it seems like we’ve been doing the “same-old, same-old.”
“Can we make a real effort to do some different things soon?” I said, trying not to make the conversation one of those heavy talks that Tommy tends to tune out.
“Like what?” he asked.
“Oh, I don’t know,” I said.
“We could join a gospel choir. We could go deep sea diving. We could start having really big dinner parties ...”
He gave me that look that is difficult for me to decipher. I wondered if he was mapping intricate strategies to spice up my life, or practicing his ability to make me invisible.
“We could dress up in each others’ clothes and go to the student neighborhoods and see if anybody notices.
“For one day we could go around putting money in the meters right before the meter maids give out tickets,” I continued, now somewhat on a roll.
“We could make each other scavenger hunt lists and spend the weekend trying to find things like a purple Magic Eight balls or Xena Warrior Princess memorabilia. I don’t know, just something different for a change.”
That dialogue lead to a brief but sincere conversation about doing more social things with our friends now that the weather is turning warm, likely starting with a barbecue.
About an hour later Tommy went to take a shower and I killed some time by playing my favorite video game on the Xbox.
After whatever amount of time, he came into the living room wearing one of the outfits — a black skirt with black tights, my black bra and purple button-up sweater. For dramatic effect he had even put on my frosted lipstick.
Of course I cracked up and admired his outfit and critiqued how nice his legs looked in my black tights.
After the runway show was over he said, “well, you said we should dress up in each others’ clothes ....”
I guess he was really listening.