my lovely wife had coffee this morning
Driving to work. Listening to CBC Radio.
INTERVIEWER: So tell us about the Microsoft Zune? Is it an iPod killer?
INTERVIEWEE: In a word… no. That’s not to say-
[My Lovely Wife changes the station away from CBC.]
ME: Oh.
MY LOVELY WIFE: I’m sorry. Were you listening to that?
[My Lovely Wife changes the station back to CBC.]
INTERVIEWEE: -and if you are next to someone else with a Zune-
MY LOVELY WIFE: Look at that a mosquito do you see that right there on the windshield [points at spot on windshield directly between my eyes and the road] you’d think at this time of year all the mosquitoes would be dead but nope there one is it’s funny there weren’t that many mosquitoes at all this year but look there’s one still around here let me get rid of it for you [reaches over and flicks on windshield wipers full blast] bye-bye little mosquito [turns off wipers] well that mosquito’s dead now it’s sort of sad though to have survived this long only to die here on our windshield oh well he had a long life longer than most mosquitoes so I guess that’s a good thing and anyways he might not have died he might have just gotten nudged off the windshield so-
[I sigh inaudibly and change the station away from CBC.]
MY LOVELY WIFE: Oh, weren’t you listening to that?
November 20th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Okay, that was your best one yet. I have a whole new appreciation for The Wife Whose Actual Name Shall Not Be Used.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I think the Lovely Wife is a genius!
November 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
In her own way, She’s telling you “The ZUNE SUCKS!” and “Microsoft is STUPID”. She’s very clever.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
I’m with Otto. You certainly don’t need to hear a CBC report when you have this article at your fingertips. Ipod? Be not afraid.
November 20th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Wait. You’re concerned about a possible threat from a Microsoft product, when your wife is clearly saving you from the very real threat of malaria? Priorities, man. Not to mention common sense. What’s the name? “Zune”? …..not a threat. I have spaken. Er. Spoken. Spake. Yeah. That.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Aaaaw feel poor l’il Billy Gates’ pain..he just can’t get rich enough!!!
Sween: I like CBC too. Going to Vinyl Cafe show on Dec 1st. Woo hoo.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:10 am
Everyone knows microsoft is jealous of Apples sucess. Your wife is being forced to hit you over the head with the concept, albeit she has to switch off CBC radio but hey whatever it takes.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:16 am
I am truly appreciative of My Lovely Wife’s brilliance and ingenuity. And I am properly cognisant of the fact the the Zune sucks and Bill Gates is a big poopyhead.
HOWEVER… when the choice is either listening to an interview where there exists the possibility of Zune and/or Microsoft bashing OR listening to a radio station that just MIGHT POSSIBLY AT SOME POINT play Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie”… I know where I’m going.
Hell, if the choice is between listening to the sounds of liposuction or listening to a radio station that just MIGHT POSSIBLY AT SOME POINT play Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie”… bring on the suction.
But My Lovely Wife is very pleased to have amused you all.
She still doesn’t understand anything to do with this site. But she nods and smiles politely when I talk about it. So that’s a good thing.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:24 am
…coming soon:
http://thelovelywives.blogspot.com
A place where victims of husband bloggers can post, intermittently, or not post at all, about the foolishness that goes on around them and their spouses’ inability to resist documenting it all.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:19 am
That is the best idea I have ever heard for a blog that will never have any posts. You gotta snatch up that blog name now.