So I'm enjoying the full time life, living the dream as it were...
Today, in our local supermarket with the wife I walked past a police friend of mine a few times. He knows about me but has never seen Donna. At the checkout he approaches my wife and starts to talk to her, trying to work out where he knows her from. (She last met him about a year ago on a big motorcycle ride.) Both he and my wife were struggling to recall until I called his name and asked if he was chatting up my wife... Cue loud public mis gendering, stream of expletives and look of total surprise.
We had a chat, finished up with a hug but his parting comment was best... As he walked away shaking his head, he said, "and I was checking out your legs..." After all the things trying to bring me down lately, today really lifted my spirits.