The best excuse of the century

I was watching a chinese drama on channel 8 today. It's a local one at 7pm. I don't usually watch it, but today I was bored. So anyway, there was this wife who found out that her husband had been having an affair with her secretary. Let me repeat again. Her secretary. Okay, I'm digressing, because that's not the point I'm trying to make. So, the secretary went to visit the wife after the whole thing was exposed. She was sobbing, telling the wife all sorts of things, which to me, is pure rubbish. Then came the part where she told the wife, It was just mutual admiration.

Woohoo! We have just invented THE excuse of the century for adultery.

Mutual admiration!

At this point, I burst out laughing and simply had to turn off my television set before I hear any more nonsense to edge me into throwing my cup at my 54 inch TV.

Why can't she say something more believable like, yes. I slept with your husband. I admit that I lusted after him, and that old toad of a man probably did too. After me, I mean. Isn't that a nice little confession? And believable too.

I mean, come on. Mutual admiration?! Sheesh. As a wife, is she suppose to believe that you just sat there admiring his caligraphy work or something? Oh, did the little twit think that the wife had an intelligence of zero? Worse thing was, the adulteress actually believed in whatever she herself was saying.

Mutual admiration...

I shall remember that one.