My Pilot Wife Called for Help, but I Sat in the Control Tower Listening to Music

The pilot’s wife asked me for in-flight assistance, but instead of helping her, I put on my Bluetooth headphones and started listening to music. As an air traffic controller, I could have guided her to safety. In my previous life, when her plane malfunctioned, I immediately helped her troubleshoot the instruments and coordinated the response. That was how she and the passengers aboard made it safely to the ground. But when I raced to meet my wife, my eyes red from crying, she accused me bitterly: “Why did you deliberately give me the wrong instructions? You nearly killed more than two hundred people on that plane!”