Yeah, that's how I sold my first alfa, the 64 Sprint GT. The guy who bought it hadn't told his wife, and was taking her out to wine and dine her first before he told her. We went out to wine and dine to celebrate selling the car, and lo and behold, we all accidentally ended up at the same restaurant downtown. WE walked in to the bar area, and there they were. He hadn't told her yet, and when we walked up and said, hi there, celebrating your buying our Alfa? His wife said, hey, what? and he was practically bouncing up and down trying to shoo us out of sight.
This was the same guy for whom we later bought "braino's" 1300 Junior Zagato for in Scotland in 1975 that he (braino) later bought and is restoring. This guy not braino) wanted a ride down to Vancouver, Wa to pick the Z up after it had been shipped from Antwerp, Belgium. As we were driving down there, we innocently asked him if he had heard anything about the 1600 Junior Z we left his phone number on in Luxembourg. His wife who was along almost blew up, demanding to know about the NEW Luxembourg Alfa.
The guy was always buying Alfas without telling his wife. As I remember, she was not the forgiving type. We could never figure out how he stayed alive, lol.