Thread by @ariehkovler

In honour of @wesstreeting's return to politics, I think it's time to tell the story of how he (unknowingly) became a source of tension in my marriage. Thread/

https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1419975859838980101

@wesstreeting My wife @shaynale68 is originally a New Yorker. Wes was visiting Jerusalem on a delegation and had a little free time, so we took him out to Gatsby, a speakeasy-theme cocktail bar with a hidden entrance behind a bookcase.

@wesstreeting @shaynale68 I remember we grimly predicted that Trump would win the 2016 election and that Brexit would narrowly pass. Also we drank cocktails and politely argued about Israel/Palestine.

@wesstreeting @shaynale68 I went to the bathroom, and when I returned the atmosphere was a little different. It was hard to explain. But we wrapped up afterwards and went our separate ways.

@wesstreeting @shaynale68 On the way home, my wife said that while I was in the bathroom, she told Wes she "always got a bit randy when drunk". She told me this as if it was the most normal thing to say in the world to a man she'd just met while her husband stepped away.

@wesstreeting @shaynale68 I was taken aback. This was out of character for her, and why tell me? I said he probably thought she was making a pass at him.

She said that was crazy. First, Wes had spoken about both his partner and sexuality; but more importantly, she insisted that nobody could possibly interpret her comment as inappropriate or sexual.

We bickered about it on and off for a couple of weeks. She couldn't accept that telling Wes she was randy was an issue. I couldn't understand why she was digging in.

Eventually we told the story to a friend to get her opinion on who was right.

Halfway through @shaynale68's retelling, the friend asked: "Wait a minute. Are you saying RANDY or RANTY?"

@shaynale68 Realisation dawned quickly on both @shaynale68 and me that New Yorker saying "ranty" sounds almost exactly like a Londoner saying "randy".

(on another occasion, she mentioned Plato and I thought she was saying Play-doh, which was at least a faster confusion to resolve)

Anyway I've never told @wesstreeting this story. I don't even know if he heard her say "ranty" or "randy" that night.

@wesstreeting Welcome back to politics, Wes. Keep well.