Trust your instincts, not your spouse
By: James Fenske
Janice and Thomas had the perfect marriage, everyone agreed. Both successful, good looking, healthy and happy individuals, they enjoyed vacations together and worked well on their business together.
Janice thought her life was perfect. Their business was doing well, at least according to the numbers Tom was giving her. But things started seeming a bit odd.
The first thing that happened was a strange thing to be suspicious of – Tom cleaned the car out. Usually his car was a mess of fast food wrappers, files, and old water bottles. One day when he came home, it was clean. This was odd, but nothing to write home about.
The next thing was the new clothes. Tom had always worn the clothes Janice had bought him in a rather boring way, and suddenly he was buying polo shirts and wearing striped shirts under sweaters with the bottom of the shirt sticking out.
Janice wasn’t normally a suspicious person, but everything felt wrong. While surfing the internet, she ordered a couple of small “spy” cameras. She thought she was being overly dramatic but figured that she’d video tape a couple of hours of Thomas’ boring life and feel reassured. She didn’t want to be one of those women who ignored all of the warning signs and let bad things happen to them.
She chose cameras that looked like other things – her favorite was the book camera – and put one in Tom’s home office, one in the suddenly clean car, and one in the front of their office at work. Then she went away on an overnight business trip with her secretary.
When she came back and looked at the tapes, she didn’t see much. Mostly sleeping, eating pizza in his office while he worked for dinner, and working. She felt better. Over the weekend, she was going to help her sister with her nephew’s birthday party – she was spending Saturday night at her sister’s and Tom would arrive on Sunday with the cake. Just as an added reassurance, she reset the video cameras, and didn’t think about them.
She removed the cameras on Monday, but actually forgot to check the tapes until a week later, when Tom was late coming home from a business meeting. It was like watching really boring reality TV for the first while, until she watched the car tape. Tom was having an affair with their secretary!
Janice would never have found out without the surveillance cameras, because she would never have suspected their married secretary. With the videos as evidence, she and Tom decided to go to marriage counseling and worked things out.
James Fenske
http://www.cameraspytech.com