Melburnian1
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For some of us the consequences of going further away from home or SWMBO (I'm referring to males here) than the supermarket or mailbox without telling the spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend are not worth thinking about.
Others, I'm told, have a relatively freer lifestyle.
What's the furthest away that you have flown without telling your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend? (I'm meaning the sort of trip that if your spouse or special friend knew about it, he or she would say 'why didn't you tell me about it?' If you routinely fly on day trips anywhere and she or he doesn't care, that's a trifle different.)
Changes to work trips where she or he knew that you were going to X, and you then had to go to Y, don't count for the purposes of this.
Extensions by surface transport are fine. For instance, you may have snuck away from Melbourne to Sydney for a weekend with an (ahem!) third party and ended up on a train to the Blue Mountains.
Be as coy or as forthright as you wish, or if you genuinely knew someone else who did this, that's fine for the telling too.
It might have been for sad reasons (someone passed away who wan't known to your 'better half', you knew of it in a phone call and didn't want to make a fuss), it may have been for that old girls or lads' reunion that you knew your better half wouldn't care about or wouldn't understand, and your other half was already busy with other activities that weekend - or it may have been for 'reasons of the heart' as Poirot might have said.
It might have been to meet that recruiter who'd sworn you to secrecy and who paid for a day trip up or down and back. It may have been to close a business deal that was super confidential.
Was there anything particularly memorable about the plane trip either way, and which airline carried you on your secretive mission?
Fact is better than fiction, but often stranger. Any takers?
Others, I'm told, have a relatively freer lifestyle.
What's the furthest away that you have flown without telling your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend? (I'm meaning the sort of trip that if your spouse or special friend knew about it, he or she would say 'why didn't you tell me about it?' If you routinely fly on day trips anywhere and she or he doesn't care, that's a trifle different.)
Changes to work trips where she or he knew that you were going to X, and you then had to go to Y, don't count for the purposes of this.
Extensions by surface transport are fine. For instance, you may have snuck away from Melbourne to Sydney for a weekend with an (ahem!) third party and ended up on a train to the Blue Mountains.
Be as coy or as forthright as you wish, or if you genuinely knew someone else who did this, that's fine for the telling too.
It might have been for sad reasons (someone passed away who wan't known to your 'better half', you knew of it in a phone call and didn't want to make a fuss), it may have been for that old girls or lads' reunion that you knew your better half wouldn't care about or wouldn't understand, and your other half was already busy with other activities that weekend - or it may have been for 'reasons of the heart' as Poirot might have said.
It might have been to meet that recruiter who'd sworn you to secrecy and who paid for a day trip up or down and back. It may have been to close a business deal that was super confidential.
Was there anything particularly memorable about the plane trip either way, and which airline carried you on your secretive mission?
Fact is better than fiction, but often stranger. Any takers?
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) on Valentine's day weekend. Got in strife for that one.
