Be sure it’s your wife or….

A Saudi man who wanted to joke with his wife in a crowded shopping mall got the shock of his life when she reacted with a big slap on the face. For the woman who he tapped on the back was not his wife.

But the woman did not stop there. She started to swear, lunged at him with more slaps and fists and yelled to other women in the mall to help her, the Saudi Arabic language daily Kabar reported on Wednesday.

Scores of women joined her and the man, still under shock, leaned against the wall just to receive the blows and curses.

The unidentified husband was looking for his wife in the mall in the Saudi capital Riyadh when he noticed one that has similar features from behind.

“He approached her, tapped her back and said ‘you still haven’t found the dress you want’….when she turned to face him, she was not his wife,” Kabar said.

“After he sobered up from the shock and the women calmed down, he phoned his wife, who rushed and told them that there was a mistake and that her husband is not that kind of a man….that woman then told him ‘well if you want to joke with your wife, do it at home not in the market.”

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