The narrator remembers traveling to a hotel with his mistress and being surprised to see his father-in-law’s automobile at the entrance

He canceled the meeting and told his friend it wasn’t a good day out of concern that his father-in-law would see him with his mistress. She left disappointed, and the narrator, frustrated, broke both mirrors on his father-in-law’s car before going home. The next day, the narrator visited his father-in-law to brag about the missing automobile mirrors.
. He was immediately challenged by this awkward and maybe dangerous scenario.