Checking out the Cream Puff

I had never seen Cream Puff. I had only seen a photo, taken from the Web. One day, a friend of mine, who lives one block away from the Prof’s new house, phoned me.

"Want to check out Cream Puff", she asked. "She is watering the garden outside."

Well, that was an opportunity not to be missed, I thought.

We drove past, and sure enough, Cream Puff was standing outside watering the garden.
I couldn’t believe my eyes! She was just ... Ordinary. She was more than that, she was plain, plump … nothing much to look at.

My thoughts went something along the lines of… you left me for this????

My friend and I began to laugh. Come on, let’s drive around the block – check her out again.

So, like naughty school children, we drove around AGAIN. I think we drove past about 3 times, each time, laughing harder than the last.

I think Cream Puff became aware of us, but I don’t know if she ever realized what was going on. To this day, I am ashamed of this incident. During the whole process, my conduct had been honorable …. Above reproach. This did not feel like the honorable thing to have done… to laugh at someone behind their back. It would have been better to have a face to face fight with her (something my counselor had forbidden me to do – can I hear you saying – aaahhh.Don’t worry , me too. There were days where I also wished I could go bop her on the nose!!!)


But, I did learn something from it all – affairs are not about the spouse who was cheated on, they are not about the other woman being prettier or younger… affairs are something with which the people involved, try to fill a gap in their lives.