Local Woman At After Work Drinks Takes Leaf Out Of Husband's Book And Just Turns Her Phone Off

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact

A local woman has this afternoon turned the tables on her husband by ignoring text messages and then ultimately turning her phone off while out for drinks with her friends.

Speak to this masthead in the smoking section of a popular French Quarter pub, the mother of two said the idea came into her head as soon as the panicked text messages began to roll in at about 5pm this afternoon.

"I mean, he does it to me all the time," she said.

"Says he's going out for one drink after work, then it's an hour, then it's home for dinner, then it's bed time and then all of us sudden, it's midnight and he's come in the door sideways and knocking over furniture and making a racket in the kitchen,"

"So, I thought, fuck it. He's already picked the kids up from daycare, he's already at home. There's dinner in the fridge, two tins for formula under the sink and his mother and sister live five minutes away,"

"So I just turned my phone off and got some margaritas. Why not."

She said there was some element of guilt and she almost called it. Until he started talking about how her being out on the lash with her workmates is "adding to his mental load" which was enough to make her laugh out loud.

"I'm not sure if he was taking the piss, I hope he was," she added.

"And I just know his mother is on the way over there. She'd be scolding him too for being that hopeless."

More to come.