I was out to dinner at a local Italian restaurant when a familiar-looking couple walked in the door. "That looks like my accountant," I said, delving into a load of bread.
"You're kidding," my friend B. said. "Those people? I hear they're the best sex therapists in Boulder."
I swiveled around to get another look. "Well, that's definitely my accountant and his wife," I said. "But sex therapists. Are you sure?"
She nodded.
"Shit," I said. "Nobody tells me anything."
When I got home, I relayed this information to Kimo, who, like B., already knew about the apparently-not-so-secret double lives of our accountant and his wife. I guess I was the only one who was taking things at face value, putting stock into those tiny little type-written titles that appear on business cards.
But it got me thinking: how many of us lead secret or not-so-secret double lives? And is it just an American thing, or is it a world-wide phenomenon?