File this under things I SHOULD know about my husband

Last night we went to my dad's bar to hang around for a little while; TK was bringing his new girlfriend and he wanted us to meet her. He knows better than to make it seem like he was seeing if she passed muster, though I think that's part of it. He's had a few girlfriends over the past couple of years that neither of us could stand (but we did honestly try) and that makes it a little uncomfortable when you're trying to hang out with a friend.

Everything was going quite nicely; she was personable and warm, though there was a little bit of a language barrier because English is not her first language and she doesn't understand some idioms. TK thinks it's cute. I thought she was funny and friendly, and that she was someone we could all get along with.

Then her cell phone rang and TK said she needed to take the call, because she was expecting one from her brother. She started to excuse herself from the table but Ian waved it off and said he didn't mind. So she took the call there, and as she spoke to her brother in French, I realized Ian's eyes had squinted just a tiny bit and then he was mostly expressionless. She only spoke on the phone for a minute or so before she hung up, and when she did Ian got up, reached for my hand, and said, "It was nice to meet you. I'm sorry you don't feel the same way, so we'll call it a night now and leave you two alone."

I was speechless and had no idea what was going on, and neither did TK, who started to follow us to the door with a "what the hell?" look on his face.

"She said," Ian told him, "that she couldn't beleive she was stuck in such a wretched bar with your idiot friends, and she couldn't wait to get out of here."

Now, here is where I should have been offended, but the only thing I thought was, "How did you understand that?"

You would think that after all these years I would have known that he can speak French. I didn't have a clue. And on the drive home I learned that he speaks a couple other languages; he can't read them, necessarily, but he can understand and speak them passibly.

I shouldn't be surprised, because his job used to take him all over the world and he needed to be able to understand what was going on around him, but I had no clue.

And now I wonder what else I don't know about him, and how I can figure it out. I think that's one of the things I like, that he can still surprise me once in a while.