I worked for a guy whose wife was like this. It was a small construction company and we were going to a job site about 45 miles from town. He got a call from his wife on the two-way, she said he forgot to take out the garbage. This task is simply taking a can of garbage from the home to the curb.
He dropped us off at the worksite, then quickly sped back to town to take out the garbage.
There was always something like this going on for us workers to be amused over.
Weird how single women can take cans from their house to the curb, but married women can’t.
Your coworker suffered from an ailment.....it’s called being pu**y whipped.
Possible “taking out the garbage” was code?