The silence of the night shattered. A phone rings at 2 a.m., slicing through sleep and safety. A groggy wife answers, listens, and snaps, “How should I know? That’s 200 miles from here!” She slams the phone down. Her husband, now wide awake, demands, “Who was that?” 

She turns slowly toward him, eyes still heavy with sleep but sparkling with mischief. “Some idiot asking if the road is clear between here and Chicago,” she says. “How would I know? I’m not the weather girl, and I’m definitely not driving out there to check.” Her husband blinks, trying to process the absurdity of someone calling their house, at 2 a.m., for traffic conditions two hundred miles away.

Then it hits him: the sheer ridiculousness of it all. The dark room fills with their laughter, the kind that comes when you’re too tired to stay annoyed. The tension melts, replaced by a shared sense of “Did that really just happen?” Long after they’ve turned off the light, they lie awake, replaying the moment, bonded a little tighter by one bizarre, late‑night call and the perfect, cutting line that ended it.