Double Life

…or more like Triple Life!!

Long ago, I worked with a guy at the service company. On the surface, he was full of himself, slightly humorous, and very cocky. A real “President Of His Own Club” type of guy.
Well, he really thought he could pull it all off, juggling a wife and a mistress on the side. He had been successfully pulling this off for over 6 years. He even brought the mistress to work and got her a job. The nerve! So while his wife was at home taking care of the kids, working full time and being a wife to, well the Prez as we’ll call him from this point on, he was leading a double life.

One day, he meets Girl #3. He doesn’t tell her he has a mistress, let alone a wife and kids. So he starts seeing Girl #3 from time to time then more seriously. She is smitten with him and she decided to send flowers to him at work. That’s what normal girlfriends do, right? Well, that would have been okay if she was in fact a normal girlfriend.

The flowers arrived and sat at the front desk until The Prez came back to the office after he was told he had flowers waiting for him. To find out whom the flowers were for, another gal in the office had to look at the card, naturally. She sees on the card “Dear Prez these flowers are to show you how much I care for you and how wonderful the past few months have been. I think I am falling in love with you! Love, Girl #3“. Can you say firestorm? Remember, Mistress works at our location also. Word got to her SO fast, and she wasn’t even working that day. When Mistress confronted the Prez, he got upset with HER for “overreacting”. He ended up breaking it off with Mistress, telling her that Girl #3 was REALLY the girl for him. Really?? A gal with 3 kids from her previous marriage whom you’ve been LYING to for several months who doesn’t know you already have a mistress, let alone a wife!!

Well, The Prez under estimated the wrath of the Mistress. She was, shall we say, unstable to begin with. But abruptly end a 6 year relationship and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!! Mistress decided to take it upon herself and contact Girl #3 to tell her that SHE was in fact the orginal mistress, she’d been seeing the Prez for 6 years AND he was married and had been for 15 years. Girl #3 was FURIOUS that the Prez had been lying to her, BIG lies, for months.

But Mistress wasn’t done yet with her wrath. She then contacted Prez’s wife. Yes she did! She had met her several times at company functions and crazily enough, they hit it off as acquantainces. WEIRD!!! So Mistress confessed to Wife that she had been having an affair with Prez for 6 years, and now there is another woman involved, Girl #3.

What did Wife do? She left his ass! She filed for divorce and took the kids with her! So, what’s the score now? Prez, 0. Ladies, 3. He has NO women at this point.

Then it got ugly…

Prez said that Mistress was now stalking him. Mistress said that Prez was stalking HER. They took restraining orders out on each other. Then they couldn’t be at the office at the same time, so that involved EVERYONE coordinating their schedules around all of this drama.

Meanwhile, Prez learned a very big lesson in all of this. He really did in fact love his Wife and wanted her back. But they had divorced at this point. And she didn’t want to have anything to do with him. But he was determined to win her back. And it took him a few years, but he finally did win Wife back. They re-married a few years after their divorce, and their relationship was stronger than ever. He was a changed man.

A few years after they remarried, Prez was writing out a contract and came to me with this question, “Hey Sassy, how do you spell “fidelity”?” but he pronounced it “Fye-delity”. I said “You mean “FI-delity”?”. He said yes, that’s it! I spelled it for him and said “Wow, The Prez doesn’t know how to spell “Fidelity”?? WHAT a shock!!!!”. It took him a second and he said “Okay, high five, that was a good one!!! It took me a minute to get it, but that was good. BUT, that was a LONG time ago! I don’t do that crap anymore!!! I”m a changed man!!”.
Sometimes old dogs learn new tricks after all, huh??

Anyone else ever involved in MAJOR office drama like that? Where the whole office is involved??

Add comment July 29, 2009