My Chastity Belt

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In case you have not been following my other two blogs, Daily Scratchpad, and Enough is Enough, I will bring you up to date:

In DS, my most recent war in C-III is going well. Good news. But better news is that I was able to send Kootch's sister an e-mail after Kootch arrived back in Denver. What to say? Kootch had already called her sister. I really had no news. So, I came up with a little joke: I e-mailed Kootch's sister, Michiko, with a request that she look for the key to my 'chastity belt.'

I claimed that Kootch had apparently lost the key, and that I suspected that it had fallen out of her purse and might be found somewhere in Michiko's home. I requested Michiko to search her home, and to mail the key to me by air express if she found that key. It was a joke, of course.

Michiko, glorious Japanese woman that she is, took me (a male 'member of the family') quite seriously and began searching her home.

Apparently, her husband wondered what was going on, and Michiko showed him the e-mail. He laughed, getting the joke. He then explained to Michiko that she had mis-interpreted the situation - that my e-mail was actually a joke based on my 'freedom' from Kootch's supervision while she was in Japan. He then explained to her exactly what a 'chastity belt' is and why Kootch might have chosen to have fitted me with a chastity belt. Poor Michiko!

Was she 'mortified?' Or did she instead laugh along with the rest of us. I think that she laughed along, relieved that she was no longer obligated to search for a mysterious key.