The Pink Band-Aid

I was alternating between reading and crocheting, both activities I have to do without my glasses. Without my glasses, I am pretty near blind. So when my husband sat down at the other end of the couch from me to chat about this and that, I thought he had a milk mustache.
I put on my glasses, all the better to see my beloved with, my dears.

"Why," I asked, and quite reasonably, I thought, "Are you wearing a pink band-aid on your upper lip?"

"Because," my beloved answered, "we were all out of blue band-aides."

Oh. Well okay, then. That answers that.

He smirked at me, the man-smirk, you know the one? And they talk about that look that we have.

I gave him that look. You know the one.

"Airsoft?" I asked.



"Yes."

Then he proceeded to explain to me how smart our son is because after the injury he realized the would not play any more airsoft until they found eye protection, and he (the Boy) found some safety goggles for painting or other construction work that hadn't even been opened yet, and fit perfectly well over their glasses, and wasn't I comforted by this fact.

"Look," he said.  "It's not even that bad.  It really doesn't hurt. It's just going to be a bear to shave. But it's nothing."

Nothing at all.  But a flesh wound.  No pain.  No problem.  No trouble.  No big deal.  Really.

"I know," he said, "you just don't get guys enjoying shooting at each other."

"Well, not so much that," I said, "as the fact that I find it hard to understand why you think I should take comfort in the fact that you don't think about eye protection until you have an open wound on your face, and the fact that the protection you came up with still won't prevent the same injury. Plus, it's lucky your mouth was closed."

He says that mostly he's really embarrassed, but then he suggested I blog about it. He's also stoked because he remembered tomorrow is his last day at work for a week, and he could go without shaving for the rest of the week because we will be camping.

Still.  I think he's awfully cute, even with a pink band-aid.