Kate began working on Tom that night. She didn’t usually talk about footy too much not being as big a fan as the brothers but over dinner she bombarded Tom about the upcoming game “What are the Tigers chances? Do you think the team will make any changes? What’s a president’s dinner anyway? Do they really let people into the change rooms after the game?”
Tom answered but in the end said to Kate “Why are you so interested all of a sudden? Usually you don’t care about the footy”
“I was talking to Kerry. She is so excited to be attending the big game”
“So she should be. She will have a great time while I’ll be trying to make conversation with your workmates while your off running around making sure everything is running smoothly”
“You sound envious of her”
“I am. I wish it was me going to the footy”
“Well you know you could. All you would have to do is swap with Kerry. But I doubt she would go for that”
“I thought it was divorce if I didn't attend”
“If you could get Kerry to swap with you. You could go to the game and Kerry could come to the dance”
“I thought I had to attend the dance. That it’s vitally important that as your husband I am there to sit through all the long speeches and clap when appropriate”
“Well yes it is important that my husband is there. But if you swapped bodies with Kerry …… No she would never go for that”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t think she would go for that. But I suppose there wouldn’t be any harm asking. You didn’t want to use the socks again anyhow”
“Are you suggesting she might give up attending the game to go to the Dinner dance?”
“Well I don’t think she is quite as footy crazy as you are and she does like dancing…. But probably not. She sounded pretty excited about the game. Besides she probably wouldn’t want to become a man” Kate reasoned she had put the idea in Tom’s head. He needed to make a decision for himself. She decided to change the subject. She switched to a different track “Talking about the dinner dance. How long do you think the speeches should go for? I’ve given Lily 20 minutes and Rex thinks it will take him at least 25 minutes to outline the changes we are going to implement”
Tom hated sitting there listening to speeches “As short as possible. Confine any speeches to 5 minutes at most”
Kate didn’t raise the idea of body swapping again but she was confident she had planted the seed in Tom's mind