My husband recently returned from a job where he was working with a crew of men and women. At one point, while driving to location and engaging in the casual chit-chat one has in a crew van, one of the female crew members asked him, “So what does your wife do?”

“She’s at home with the two boys right now.”

“Oh...”, she replied.

This detail was an aside within a larger story and with its inclusion I saw my husband try and shift back to his greater point. But it was too late.