# My wife thinks she has precognition, X-ray vision and a supercalculator brain **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483 "2003-12-22T17:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/21 "2003-12-22T20:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dangerosa \* > So I get him to give me a Christmas list. “Well, honey, you can buy me the new Neverwinter Nights expansion. It just came out and I haven’t bought it yet so someone can give it to me for Christmas.” > > So I run out and buy it… and guess what he walks into the door with last night. I might have to kill him. A kindred spirit! Just like Bill Clinton, _You Feel My Pain_! (And unlike Bill, your hands aren’t cold.) I swear, my lovely wife buys herself more stuff at Christmastime than she does the rest of the year combined. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come home the store, stoked to the gills after finding **the. one. perfect. gift.** , only to have her show up with the exact same thing a day or so later. It’s like some sort of low-grade telepathy or something – she can _sense_ the damn gift vibes, and that motivates her to go out and get it for herself. “I just kept thinking about this for some reason, honey, and I decided I _had_ to have it …” ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/22 "2003-12-22T20:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sauron \* > \*\*No we don’t. Do we? We just have seasons one through three … right? Please tell me I’m right. \*\* Of course you are not right. Did you really need to ask me that? 😉 You bought me Seasons 1 through 3 for my birthday. We bought Season 4 together as our anniversary gift. Season 5 is out right now. Season 6 hasn’t been released yet. ---
**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/23 "2003-12-22T20:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > my underwear still threatens to drape round my knees Call me crazy, but I think that’s what he wants. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/24 "2003-12-22T21:06:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aries28 \* > \*\*Of course you are not right. Did you really need to ask me that? 😉 > > You bought me Seasons 1 through 3 for my birthday. We bought Season 4 together as our anniversary gift. Season 5 is out right now. Season 6 hasn’t been released yet. \*\* Uh-oh… Is this their first online fight? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/25 "2003-12-22T21:17:44Z")
Hey, remember when she spent like $90 on clothes and thought it was a good deal? You should use the same Female Logic and the “But honey, I got it ON SALE! It was SUCH A GREAT DEAL!” ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/26 "2003-12-22T21:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sauron \* > **I swear, my lovely wife buys herself more stuff at Christmastime than she does the rest of the year combined.** My mom and I love to shop - it’s how we bond. We shop together all year round - but when it gets around Christmastime, it starts feeling a bit awkward. “Do you need a gift box?” “Nope - this is for us, thanks.” Susan ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/27 "2003-12-22T21:42:10Z")
[quote] [li]Just because you think you know what those presents are, doesn’t mean you really know. The shape may resemble the boxed edition of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD, but many other things come in boxes that exact same shape. Things such as … oh … a jewel-encrusted marital aid. [/li][/quote] Oh man, if my husband was only now buying me the Fourth season I’d be pissed the fuck off. It’s been out since June! What’s wrong with you?! Especially since _ **Season Five** _ [sub]Best Season Ever[/sub] was released earlier this month. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/28 "2003-12-22T21:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Uh-oh… > > Is this their first online fight? \*\* Nope, I think this is subtle misdirection. The key thing is to give them something to be upset over, just make sure it is the wrong thing. Nothing like pulling the rug right out from under an angry spouse with a full head of steam. **Sauron** , take a look at the myriad ways professional sports teams get under the salary cap. Have you considered Boxing Day Signing Bonuses? Deferred payment on MLK Jr Day presents? A First Day of Winter commemerative Box Set of Season 5 with matching handbag? Or a gift to the whole family that somehow is only appropriate for a particular individual, but is in fact for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/29 "2003-12-22T21:54:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Buying any kind of jewelry for him is just next to impossible. > > He has been blathering on forever about some Ring he wanted but I looked and looked and couldn’t find what he described to me. If his ring size in 10, you’re in [luck](http://tolkiendepot.com/M_theOneRing.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/30 "2003-12-22T22:02:40Z")
Man, now I’m all caught up in the underlying drama of the Buffy boxed-set. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/31 "2003-12-22T22:04:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrMyth \* > \*\*So you got diamonds? \*\* I did say he figured out my taste in jewelry. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/32 "2003-12-22T22:07:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Telemark \* > Nope, I think this is subtle misdirection. The key thing is to give them something to be upset over, just make sure it is the wrong thing. Nothing like pulling the rug right out from under an angry spouse with a full head of steam. Yeah! That’s what I’m doing! What **Telemark** said! That misdirection thing! **pepperlandgirl** , obviously I have _already_ purchased season four at some point in the distant past – my wife has confirmed this. Just because it’s barely possible that I’ve forgotten that, and have in fact purchased it _again_, doesn’t mean I don’t get appropriate credit for getting it the first time, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/33 "2003-12-22T22:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Hey, remember when she spent like $90 on clothes and thought it was a good deal? You should use the same Female Logic and the “But honey, I got it ON SALE! It was SUCH A GREAT DEAL!” \*\* $90? What’s that for, a belt? I’m thinking you’ve never been married, or you’d realize how ridiculous it is to suggest that a woman could ever just spend $90 shopping for clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/34 "2003-12-22T22:11:52Z")
Quoth Aries > [@](#): > > The really bad thing is that he already knows what I bought him for Christmas…a new dressy type watch. Is it jewel-encrusted? Quoth avabeth > [@](#): > > Next thing I know, you’ll be telling me Michael Jackson doesn’t just like playing with toys. :::ripping the B from his varsity sweater, Letter Man changes the toys::: Oh, I can’t go through with it. So to update my friend’s Xmas situation, which I just know you were all desperate to hear, I got an email about Cyndi Lauper in concert in February in Chicago so I bought her two tickets. Now, I would _never_ be so uncouth as to suggest that she should use her extra ticket to take me, but I’m certainly hoping! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/35 "2003-12-22T22:12:16Z")
Well, I admit, I missed the post confirming you already bought it for her before I posted…So yeah, you get the appropriate credit…but you better get out there and buy the fifth season! There’s a good deal at Costco… ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/36 "2003-12-22T22:13:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*If his ring size in 10, you’re in [luck](http://tolkiendepot.com/M_theOneRing.shtml). \*\* Wow… looks like the Enemy[sub]2[/sub] did one in Quenya, too. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/37 "2003-12-22T22:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*If his ring size in 10, you’re in [luck](http://tolkiendepot.com/M_theOneRing.shtml). \*\* “This One ring makes an exquisite gift that will be treasured for a lifetime” And quite a lifetime, too. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/38 "2003-12-22T22:25:18Z")
Sauron, you write the most amazing pit threads, I salute you. The only thing that could possibly have made it better was a more complete mapping between hangers-on-of-teachers-of-minions-of-Sauron and LOTR characters 🙂 [szie=1](PS. Err… I have a bad feeling about saying this but I thought that non-pitting pit threads were verbotenered recently… Threads like this are a reason I’d disagree with that ruling, or at least seek loopholes. Or am I completely off-base here?)[/size] ---
**Author:** ![InkBlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@InkBlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InkBlot)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/39 "2003-12-22T22:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*If his ring size in 10, you’re in [luck](http://tolkiendepot.com/M_theOneRing.shtml). \*\* Saw [this](http://www.dragonsfireforge.com/shopping/cart/shop.cgi/page=onering.htm/SID=1072132061.9191) at the Texas Renaissance Festival this year. Custom work, and expensive as hell, but they’ll write anything you want in English or Elven, and it really does appear only when heated. Important safety tip: Unlike the movies, the ring really does get too hot to hold in your hand. InkBlot ---
**Author:** ![InkBlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@InkBlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InkBlot)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483/40 "2003-12-22T22:39:03Z")
Hmm, reading my own post it looks like an advert…so let me say it here, **it’s not an advert**. I’ve nothing to do with them, nor they me. Just a link for those, like me & Sauron, willing to go above and beyond in their Christmas shopping. Mind you, I can’t afford to go _that_ far above or beyond, but it is a nice dream. InkBlot p.s. **Sauron** , you really ought to investigate that whole _Firefly_ thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-she-has-precognition-x-ray-vision-and-a-supercalculator-brain/220483.md?page=3)