Covering Her Tracks
I used to be in the Marines. One day, I got a phone call telling me that an officer’s wife was in the hospital. The situation was apparently really bad.
Someone had broken into her house on the base. She was nine months pregnant and had been attacked so badly that she was rushed to the hospital. It was so bad that she lost the baby. I was pretty shaken up and went to the hospital with a bunch of the other officers to check up on her. I had no idea what I was getting into though.
I got to the hospital and one of the nurses gave me a strange look and said, “I can’t wait to see how this unfolds”. I was totally confused—but soon it would all make sense. The wife had an ultrasound and a blood test when she was admitted. That’s when we found out the insane truth.
She wasn’t pregnant, wasn’t attacked. Her “due” date was tomorrow, and turns out she’d been pretending to be pregnant the entire time. She beat herself up and made up this huge dramatic story to cover up her lie about her pregnancy to her husband.
You won’t believe this, but three months later, the same Marine got back together with his wife – even after all the crazy she pulled.