Joining a new small group.

Whenever we move to a new town, I feel obliged to find my wife new friends.

She does not ask me to do this. She has never said, "It is one of your husband duties to make sure I have lifelong friends within the first 10 minutes we live somewhere." But I still feel that way.

So when we go to a restaurant and have a polite waitress, I will say things like, "That girl had blonde hair too. You guys would probably be pretty good friends. You should go talk with her in between orders."

She does not...