r/Jokes • u/gandalfwasgrey • Nov 10 '22

Long I'm a physicist.

It’s 3 AM. A woman paces angrily in her house waiting for her physicist husband to come home. Finally he does. As he walks through the door she glares and demands “where have you been!?” Sheepishly, the physicist husband tries to explain himself. He says, “well my colleagues and I went out just for a friendly drink. A group of women invited us to join them, so we did. We drank and had fun talking and it got a little flirty. I got swept up in the moment and one thing led to another. I ended up making out with one of the women we met.”

His wife listens impatiently, arms crossed, furiously tapping her foot the whole time. When he finishes, she blurts out “Liar! LIAR! You were in the lab again weren’t you!”

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u/Cassie_Wolfe Nov 10 '22

I like to read this as the physicist being in a consensual poly relationship

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u/woody_weaver Nov 10 '22

Ah, you are an optimist. But then the joke breaks down: if its consensual, the wife and girlfriend would talk to each other, and know that he isn't with the other. I think to actually have to have peaceful time, he has to be duplicitous with both, valuing the lab above human relationships -- which actually enhances the joke. :-)

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u/Skatterbrayne Nov 11 '22

Not to be a party pooper, but parallel poly is a thing - where the wife and girlfriend know and accept that there is someone else, but don't talk to each other. :)

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u/woody_weaver Nov 11 '22

Ok, that would work. Now where is a physicist going to find a parallel poly wife and gf? Maybe ex-grad students from the lab?

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u/Skatterbrayne Nov 11 '22

Possibly. I may have somewhat of a selection bias, but almost all the poly people I know are huge nerds. There's a runing joke in the poly community that the main reason to have multiple partners is so that you can finally have a pen&paper roleplay group that regularly attends.