Awkward Jokes

"I'll have a whole wheat bagel," I told the woman behind the counter.

"Ok," she said punching that into the register. "Are you two together?" she went on to ask, indicating Bill.

"No," he replied, "I'm not getting anything."

I answered her quizzical expression by informing her that "He's just here to look good." We all shared a chuckle and that was that.

Until the next time we went to the bagel shop and he, once again, got nothing. "He's just here to look good, again?" she asked me.

"Yup," I said, secretly mortified that my flippant comment had come back to haunt me.

This scenario has been repeated three times now, and each time I keep hoping it won't happen the next.