He shakes his wife from peaceful sleep. It's right there in the middle of the body doing nothing but picking up lint. Think of all the trouble He could have saved. Maybe nobody noticed. One lousy word in 700 or so.
People probably skip right past it.
Some are from Europe. Most are gently chiding, others suggest the performance of a physical impossibility. He considers passing it off as deliberate, a devilishly clever readership survey.