My wife said to me..

My wife said to me: Can you please fix that garage-door.

Yeah, tomorrow, I say.

A weak later: Can you please fix that garage-door.
I say: I thought I fixed it already?

She: NO, you won the wars against the Greeks and Russians, but you didn't even think about the door? Did ya???

Forgot, sorry baby, fix it tomorrow!

Next day, her dad and my so called brother in law comes in.

They fixed the garagedoor in 2 minutes, then they went crazy and sorted out my gutters. Not only that, BIL whippersnippered the whole fence.

It cost me a six-pac!

And I could play a few more turns


AND I win!

ROFL sounds like you have things well organised!

Being retired, I just usually do that kind of stuff ASAP just so she knows I'm still alive. Plus the totally cool part of Civ V is that it just sits there waiting for me to come back and run that one more turn stuff.

My wife will spend hours on thefrisky/pininterest but after 20 min of Civ 5 she's impatiently asking me to do something.

MaximusK said:

My wife will spend hours on thefrisky/pininterest but after 20 min of Civ 5 she's impatiently asking me to do something.

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Nods, my wife hates for me to sit down for more than a few seconds too!

Heaven forbid she finds out you're doing something FUN on your own!!

I got my wife to try Civ and then WoW. She's hooked on computer games now (specifically WoW, but she still plays Civ). The upshot? She now "understands" my addiction and *never* nags me about my time spent playing or my "putting off" things due to needing to play "one more turn" <grin>

i used the same technique - first i got her in on dungeons and dragons, and when her druid "poked the wavy, distorted air in front of her" she met her first gelatinous cube - then i got her to try out a few online games but she is too smart to put up with the 12 year old gank squad/troll culture - however, once she got into my guild and realized there are players from all over the world, mmo's became a multicultural experience with many foreigners which became more fun than the game itself.

i tried to hook her on Fall From Heaven but civ4 has too high of a learning curve to teach the impatient (woman) and she "doesn't see the point" in any game -

for example, "whats the point in building cities just to conquer the world?"
"Why play this mmo if there is no last boss and you can never win and can be killed by grief players?"

one day i said

"why go to work just to make more money for my boss than i will ever see, dealing with grief workers and customers knowing i will never win, kill them all or rule the world?"

she finally got it.

good to see priorities are in order

You guys are EVIL! Excellent ideas

My girfriend will never embark into these things unfortunately...well she plays some facebook games. Thing is we only have 1 computer

thadian: that's hilarious!

In before divorce.