Point To Ponder

"What did you do?"

Now, when you answer the phone at work, and are instantly greeted by this stern question coming from your wife, it usually triggers an instant reaction - which isn't always a good one.

"Okay, I’m sorry. I ate the cookies last night."

"That's not what I'm talking about ... wait a minute, YOU ate the cookies?"

"I was hungry."

"But they had nuts in them. You hate nuts in your chocolate chip cookies."

"Well, starving men eat insects."

"We'll deal with that later."

"You mean that's not why you're calling?"

"No. What did you do at the bank?"

A brief wave of panic began to flood my...