I dialed up Gary this evening at work, because my work mates all have mushy conversations with their spouses, and they all know I eavesdrop. (If it’s a private conversation, go somewhere private, otherwise I won’t play that game where I pretend to be temporarily deaf.) So they deserve some payback.
“Hi Sweetie.”
“Hi. Ellen.”
“So, what do you want to do tonight? Cuddle on the couch? Have a nice dinner? Enjoy our wonderful stereo system?”
“Well you know … it IS my birthday month.”
(I am dumbstruck, awed by his cunning.)
He continued, “You know, that’s the reason I got the stereo system finished. Because I’m going to squat on the footstool in my underwear all month playing XBox 360 on our new system.”
I? Have been played.
10 responses to “Well Played Sir, Well Played”
Doh.
Aieee! The Queen, outfoxed!
In other news, they make 2-player Xbox360 games. Tell him you want to play *with* him, and watch him panic.
Yeah, yeah, evil.
ha ha ha!
Indeed, get a second controller and COMPETE.
Or, sit in the background on the phone talking to a fake new lover. Or a fake old boyfriend. Mushy-like. Then leave the house mysteriously.
In fact, skip the phone calls. Go be busy out of the house every night. Have fun. Spend money. Tell him you are enjoying his birthday month, too, and thank him for being so committed to his XBox. Thank him copiously as you are on your way out.
Erin G – * Homer Headslap *Becs – Outfoxed by a silver fox. Tami – What I should do is practice when he’s gone.Hattie – Too good to be true … Sherri – Oh, Sherri, I could have sex with an old boyfriend right in front of him and he’d tell me to get out of the way of the xBox.
I guess that’s one advantage to The Husband. If I want his attention, he’s all busy with whatever it is, be it arguing with a commercial or playing a game. As soon as I am interested and involved with something else, he suddenly NEEDS me and WANTS me and has to have my time and attention.
It’s weird and childish, but at least I can use it to my advantage. Kinda.
“She came home drunk at daybreak and her clothes wasn’t put on right….” – old David Bromberg song, best line EVAR!
Birthday month= hunkered on a stool playing xbox? That was not my first thought for best way to spend birthday month.
I just love your husband.
Sherri – Well, that is true, whenever I begin reading in the same room as he is I get loads of attention. Gaoo – Remember my delicate bladder,please.Hot Mom- He’s a cunning one.