Well my wife is not a morning person, so the frequency of the above event is so limited as to be very anecdotal in nature. Like it's happened maybe once or twice in our 17 years together :hihi:
Oh, here and there is completely understandable and acceptable! Our work situation was an everyday thing.
My guy had a wife that was a night shift nurse - we only worked 5pm until 2am. When I confronted him with the office's ultimatum, he said he left for work before his wife, met his lady friend for a quick encounter before coming to work, and showered when he got home from work so his wife would be none the wiser. Claimed he didn't have time to break one off AND shower AND still get to work on time.
When I responded "We don't care", he offered an alternative: he would tell his lady friend that SHE needed to start showering "real good" before he came over. I almost swallowed my tongue thinking "Well, that solves that because she's gonna kick his *** to the curb after he tells her that". But, no, she didn't --- and sadly for us (and, presumably at some level, him) her showering "real good" didn't help the situation in the slightest.
We finally had to threaten to tell his wife if he didn't start showering. Not sure if anyone would actually have done that but the stank was bad enough that I think someone eventually would have broken down and broken the code.