D. has decided that he needs a new cell phone. I feel this is a reasonable request since his current phone is only slightly more reliable and effective than the two empty soup cans I connected with string so that Laura and I could “talk” when I was about five years old. Since BIL is here as well, a trip to a store filled with electronic devices seemed to be a near-perfect Saturday morning excursion for the guys. It could only be more perfect if they could play videogames on the way to the phone store, purchase The Coolest Phones Imaginable, then walk straight out of the store into a skybox at an SEC football game. And kill aliens afterwards. While eating fried chicken.
I’m always a little concerned when D. goes shopping for electronics, because he gets a slightly glazed-over gleam in his eye that’s reserved only for things that beep and ring, and my fear is that he left the house planning to buy a small phone but will return to the house with a large television set or new video game system or, you know, a car.
I, on the other hand, am almost completely unaffected by things with plugs. I love my computer because it’s cute, not because of any features that it has. Truth be told, I don’t even KNOW what features it has. I do know it has an apple on the top of it, and when my computer is on the apple glows, and that makes me happy.
D., however, speaks a different electronic language. He knows all about tubes and resolutions and giga/mega/eleventy bytes; he knows that he needs this cable or that wire to achieve maximum sound in a space that measures 12 feet wide by 15.4987 feet long. And while I might say, oh, just round down to 15 feet, he would say, NO, you can’t do that, NO, don’t you know that the cable requirements are completely different for a room of that size?
A little over a year ago we finished out part of our basement and moved D.’s office down there. His office had previously been in the bonus room upstairs, but it was increasingly hard for him to find peace and quiet up there once A. came along (and let me tell you: after this last week of non-stop toddler talking, I wouldn’t mind finishing out an office for me so that I could have a little peace and quiet my OWN self – but that’s another story for another day). ANYWAY, when the sheetrock finally went up downstairs, D. spent hours figuring out exactly where the speakers should go in the walls.
All that to say: do you know where I would have put the speakers? Inside the television set. Where they belong.
So I’m curious to see what my husband brings back from the phone store. It could be nothing. It could be just a phone. But my guess – and this is based on knowing him for almost 30 years and being married to him for 9 – is that at the VERY least there will be a phone and some form of phone accessory. Because a gadget-y husband is one thing…but a gadget-y husband accompanied by a gadget-y brother-in-law is a recipe for an electronics shopping spree.
And the garage door is opening right now. Via remote control, of course.
More later.
Updated to add:
Oh, I SO know him. Looks like I have a new phone, too.
:-)
You’ve known your husband for 30 years???? What, were you like 5 when you met? Was this an arranged marriage? A story is waiting to be told, I’m thinking . . .I’m duly impressed (and exceedingly curious!).
Sarah, we grew up in the same church. :-) And yes, 5 is about the age we met. In Sunday School. We never dated until after college…and his mama and my parents are still in the same Sunday School class, as they have been for 30 years. It’s kinda sweet, huh?
Your husband and mine are kindred spirits. Okay, guys probably don’t want to be kindred spirits.
But I KNOW my husband will always, always come back with something bigger, grander, and more difficult for me to operate than he went out for.
Oh tell what you purchased, tell us please!?
Boo, did you know that you’re personality comes out in you write more each day and you are SUCH a pleasure to read!
I switched to T-Mobile in January because of the lower rates, and we got free phones. :) I’m thinking that the rate is lower because we don’t have a signal most of the time. A real money-saver!
Hope that isn’t the case for you!
Crazily enough, we have great T-Mobile reception here in B’ham…but next to no reception when we go to MS to visit my parents. Works great, here, though. :-)
Well, boys and their toys… I think it might be that whole unter-gatherer thing. They don’t have to hunt down food with tails anymore, so maybe it’s gadgets with chords now?
Hey! There’s one at my house, too. And another being summarily trained in the hunt.
Yea, I’m saying your hubby and mine would get along pretty well! Well you know from last week we couldn’t just get a used/ebay or regular PC we had to get the NEW MacBook! And, he usually owns every gadget before the rest of the world catches up! He is known for getting me a new cell phone oh, about every year or when I go out of town. So, I’m gonna guess I will have a new phone when we get back from Savannah!! :)
P.S. I just love the apple that lights up too! And, thanks for the target tip (shift, apple, 4) love that!!!!!
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In D’s defense, those phones were upgrades thus not expensive. The phone he was using was pitiful and he waited MUCH longer than I ever would have. He should be congratulated for showing restraint for as long as he did. :)
Yes, Barry, you are correct. The phone was long overdue and much-needed on D’s part.
And I know Brother was just picking on me. He does love to stir that pot, you know. :-) Can’t you just hear him saying it?
And Brother, we’ve got to teach you how to use those smiley faces. :-)