The Nose Knows

Pregnancy does strange things - for the woman. There's the cravings. And the mood swings. And who can forget the pukings. But there's an even scarier phenomenon that takes place - the heightened sense of smell! These days, Mae can smell anything. The prawn cracker I ate an hour ago. The neighbour frying fish a few floors down. The little itty bit of garlic in her food. The strawberry sweet I have in my pocket! It's damn freaky!


This gives rise to my theory on why some men cheat on their wives during her pregnancy. Here's the scenario. Man comes home after a "late night at the office". She smells perfume. And just like that, he gets caught with his pants down.


Some people think that men cheat on their pregnant wives because they're not getting sex at home. But I think these guys have been at it all the while, not just when the wife is pregnant. After all, most men who are likely to cheat will cheat at any occasion, indescriminately. So, it's probably not true that men mostly have affairs when their wives are pregnant - they just happen to get caught when the wife is preggers. Thanks to her heightened, Daredevil-like sense of smell.


So a word of advice. If she can smell anything, she can smell a rat.