So, I have a black eye. Nice, noticeable shiner which has come up overnight and doesn't cover with make up.
I, quite literally, walked into a door. Yesterday afternoon about 2pm - was rushing around, ran upstairs, went into the bathroom and as I opened the door it kind of sprung back against my foot (which was in the way) and smacked me in the face . Hard...enough to make me cry.
I was off work yesterday, and today, with a stomach bug...so won't be seeing anyone today so no one 'knows' yet.
Dh asked me this morning what i'm going to tell people about my eye when I go back to work tomorrow. I kind of at him and said i'd tell people I hit my face on a door, what else?
He was horror struck and is of the opinion that I'll have to think of some other reason to tell people that's 'more believable'...because as soon as I turn up with a black eye and say the clichéd fatal words 'I walked into a door', people are going to think he did it. Especially considering the fact that I've been closeted in the house for two days with a 'stomach bug'...people will add 2 and 2 and make 5.
I hadn't considered it until he said it and I would love to say he was bu. But i'm starting to think he has a point. People are a suspicious bunch and love a gossip and potential scandal and walking into a door is the oldest lie in the book. Dh and I are happy, no problems or issues or arguments whatsoever (plus he's not a scumbag which everyone is aware of)...but since when did that stop people from judging and gossiping and leaping to conclusions.
Should I lie? Make up some amusing, slightly ridiculous story about...I don't know...putting shelves up and dropping one on my face? My mums dog bouncing up and hitting me? I have all day to think about it!
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To listen to DH and lie to people about my black eye?
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SummerNights1986 · 09/12/2015 10:00
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