Other Helpful Tips

*Note: if neither you or your spouse are smokers, you will have a hard time explaining the strong smell of smoke in your clothes/hair if you met your 'affair' in a public place where smoking is allowed. Unless you were able to tell your spouse without raising suspicion that you were going to a pub/club/restaurant with a co-worker/friend/client, you are going to have a hell of a time explaining.
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2. If your spouse is already in bed when you get home from your 'visit', take a glass of water into the bedroom with you and place it in front of the clock on the nightstand. This will distort the image when they look at the clock if they should awaken when you crawl into bed and will not have a clear idea of what time it is when you get in.

3. If you should be brazen enough to have given your 'affair' a ride in your car, be sure to re-adjust the passenger seat to where your spouse usually has it set in the event that it was moved. Also, if your lover wears strong perfume/cologne, there will be a residual perfume/cologne smell in the car. Open all the windows on the way home and maybe stop at a service station to buy one of those pine scent trees that hang on the rear view mirrors. They're very strong smelling and will mask the smell. Better yet, just don't have your Affair ride in your car to begin with.

Also keep in mind that although it's unlikely that your fling will want to track you down, automobile license plates are traceable.

4. Lipstick on the collar is impossible to explain. After seeing your affair and before going home to your spouse, you must do a lipstick / hair / perfume / cologne check. If you have your lover's perfume/cologne smell on your clothing, stop to fill up your car with gas and accidently spill some on you.

If you have lipstick on any part of your clothing try this to get rid of it:

(1) Fold a dry towel a few times and place the towel beneath the stain with the stain facing the towel.

(2) Put undiluted detergent, handsoap or toothpaste on a toothbrush. Pat the stain from the back with the toothbrush starting from the periphery towards the center to move the stain onto the towel. Alternatively, finger wash the stain.

(3) In the case the material is wool or silk, try to pat with benzene or alcohol first as this may work. If the material is thick, pinch off the stain with gauze.

(4) When the stain is removed, rinse the cloth well with water. Shade off stain borders to prevent ringular stains.

(5) Let a towel absorb water from the material, leave it to dry naturally.

The above stain removal procedure may be difficult or impossible to do depending on where you are or how much time you have. After all, who carries detergent, benzene or alcohol with them? If all else fails, stop to check something under the hood of your car and 'accidentally' get some grease on your shirt / trousers where the lipstick stain is to cover it up. This may ruin your shirt but that's a small price to pay for a good coverup.