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 …”
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.
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!”
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.”
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[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.
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.
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?
$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.
:::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!
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…
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]
Saw this 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
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.
