in the relatively short history of home sex tapes its amazing how many of them have gone awry in one way or another.

i have never been part of a home sex tape but i did take a nude picture of my wife once, and so far only once. consistent with the laws that govern home sex tapes we were having a dinner party and sharing vacation prints when one of my wife’s male co-workers flipped to the nude picture. i had forgotten to remove it from the set. that night i learned of my wife’s formal ninja training as she snatched the picture from her coworker’s hand in miyagi fly and chopstick style.

since we were at the dinner at the time, natalie buried the picture in a pile of mail on the console behind the table. as fate would have it, that pile of mail was the neighbor’s that i had been collecting while they were out of town.

a few days later, the picture once again forgotten, i headed over to the neighbor’s to turn over the pile of mail. the near disaster was averted when the picture, nestled slightly off center in the pile, fell to the ground just as i was walking up to their door. anyone familiar with my somewhat bouncy gait, knows it saved us on this occasion.

there are times now i wish i had left the picture in the pile, not because i was looking to swing with my neighbors, but i’m certain there would have been some huge comedy the next time we saw them out in the yard had that picture remained in the pile…