BREAKING: Wife Seems Upset; UPDATE: False Alarm — She Said ‘I’m Fine’

AKRON, OH — Curtis Whitaker noticed some subtle differences in his wife, Janie. Her face seemed on the verge of a frown as she kept glancing at him, and all her verbal interactions were very short and curt when usually Janie was quite loquacious.

“I’m starting to think she might be upset about something,” Curtis told the press. “I have no idea what, but there’s just something different about her… and not in a happy way.”

Curtis then tried to start a conversation with her to find out if anything was bothering her, but Janie kept answering with nothing but a one- or two-word reply.

UPDATE: Curtis finally decided to try the direct method to learn if something was wrong with Janie by asking her, “Are you upset about something?”

Janie, though, replied with a sharp, “I’m fine.”

“Whew, that’s a relief,” Curtis told the press. “I was really worried I was in the doghouse, but apparently she’s fine. I guess I was just misreading her mood.”

Curtis went back to watching the game, and while he sometimes wondered why his wife kept glaring at him, he reminded himself that the matter had been put to rest.