Not necessarily true, I still spend time with my loved ones, this damned machine takes time away from other non-essential things such as eating, sleeping, or showering.
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The "My wife hates that I have an iPad" thread
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Not necessarily true, I still spend time with my loved ones, this damned machine takes time away from other non-essential things such as eating, sleeping, or showering.
I have been planning on getting the iPad but wanted to wait until I had a chance to look at it. I have to go past the Apple store tomorrow for a dentist appointment. Once I play with the iPad I will probably (?) take it home. Then I will find out how much my wife hates it. If I never post again you will know she REALLY hates it
Every minute we spend reading a book takes away a minute from our loved ones.
Every minute we spend in quiet meditation takes away a minute from our loved ones.
Every minute we spend sleeping takes away a minute from our loved ones.
Every minute we spend posting holier-than-thou messages takes away a minute from our loved ones.
So where are the "My husband hates that I have an iPad" threads?
For the past few days my wife has spent more time with her iPad than she has with me. Oh no! My self esteem is ruined! My whole being is centered around her paying attention to me! I hate that thing Yeah right
Why do you need a wife if you have the iPad? You do know it streams videos, right?
This is the best answer I've read today. The iPad won't get jealous or needy, either.
Mooch
Why do you need a wife if you have the iPad? You do know it streams videos, right?
Can't stream the dinners, yet. And they sure do come in handy.
I bet she's got nothin on that 99 cent stand from the other thread.
But the iPad won't cook or clean for you. Maybe in 4.0....?
Good fix! Then you can both ignore each other equally!
Mark
Would it be better if they were both reading a book? Couples don't need to be interacting all the time.
Seriously this thread has made me laugh until tears come out, I haven't seen my fiancé in about a month, but I bet she will be ok with using the iPad as much as I use my computer....but I might be wrong [women are sooooo unpredictable, but at the same time they are]
[women are sooooo unpredictable, but at the same time they are]
Unfortunately my wife is anti-tech. The more tech enables us, the more she hates it. She dislikes the iPhone, except of course when I use it to find out where we need to go or something and swears she will never get one. She also hates how much time I spend on the computer, except for right now because I am ripping an audiobook with Audiobook Builder for her to listen to on her Nano. Or when I put music on her SwiMP3 player so she can do laps at the pool and listen to music. Or when I buy her Twilight and New Moon on iTunes so she can watch them and all the iTunes Extras on our Apple TV. Or when we have parties and I can play a nice background playlist on the stereo as well as through the Airport Express with some speakers in the backyard. Or when we have her family over and we can watch pictures on our LCD TV.
She seems to love a lot of the cool things that I can do for her with tech, except for 2 things: a) she doesn't want to learn how to do them herself, and b) if it isn't something she specifically likes, she wants to complain. Well she wants to complain anyway. I spend too much time on the computer or emailing/texting from my iPhone or looking up sports scores on it.
Apparently as a huge early adopter of Apple products and past retail employee, I married the wrong person. She doesn't seem to get me at all. Last week on 4/1, my April Fools joke on her was to ask her if she would be home from the gym on Saturday morning at 9:30 like usual and since we didn't have to go to the Easter Egg hunt with the kids till 1:00 or so, if she wanted to go with me to the mall with the kids (there is a play area) or if I should go and hurry home. She asked me why and I told her to pick up the iPad I reserved. I told her it was paid for, I just had to pick it up. She asked who paid for it and I told her I did. She then looked like she was going to cry. I could barely let it go 60 seconds before I told her she was impossible to play an April Fools joke on and that no matter how much I would want one I certainly wouldn't buy it before I tried it.
The thing that really killed me at the end of it all was it made me realize how much sometimes she doesn't get me. It really wasn't a money thing, we can afford one, more so now that I did our taxes this week and found out what our return is. Truth is she made some comment about me buying some $2,500 thing I didn't need. Hello, it's all over the web, Yahoo, MSN, everywhere, are you that clueless how much they cost. Not that $500 - $700 is small change but still a far cry from two plus grand. Instead she thinks we need to spend our tax return landscaping the backyard which is dirt right now since we completed our renovation and it needs a sprinkler system and sod, etc. But there's still money in our return for an iPad.
My birthday is in July. Either she can buy me an iPad or I will.
She seems to love a lot of the cool things that I can do for her with tech, except for 2 things: a) she doesn't want to learn how to do them herself, and b) if it isn't something she specifically likes, she wants to complain. Well she wants to complain anyway. I spend too much time on the computer or emailing/texting from my iPhone or looking up sports scores on it.
Apparently as a huge early adopter of Apple products and past retail employee, I married the wrong person. She doesn't seem to get me at all. Last week on 4/1, my April Fools joke on her was to ask her if she would be home from the gym on Saturday morning at 9:30 like usual and since we didn't have to go to the Easter Egg hunt with the kids till 1:00 or so, if she wanted to go with me to the mall with the kids (there is a play area) or if I should go and hurry home. She asked me why and I told her to pick up the iPad I reserved. I told her it was paid for, I just had to pick it up. She asked who paid for it and I told her I did. She then looked like she was going to cry. I could barely let it go 60 seconds before I told her she was impossible to play an April Fools joke on and that no matter how much I would want one I certainly wouldn't buy it before I tried it.
The thing that really killed me at the end of it all was it made me realize how much sometimes she doesn't get me. It really wasn't a money thing, we can afford one, more so now that I did our taxes this week and found out what our return is. Truth is she made some comment about me buying some $2,500 thing I didn't need. Hello, it's all over the web, Yahoo, MSN, everywhere, are you that clueless how much they cost. Not that $500 - $700 is small change but still a far cry from two plus grand. Instead she thinks we need to spend our tax return landscaping the backyard which is dirt right now since we completed our renovation and it needs a sprinkler system and sod, etc. But there's still money in our return for an iPad.
My birthday is in July. Either she can buy me an iPad or I will.
I don't think it flew past anyone. I believe what flew past you and Mark is the fact that the original poster indicated that his wife would not mind at all if he was reading the same book on paper. If your spouse requires continuous attention, your relationship is likely in trouble.
I feel your pain
My GF is very anti tech and will give me never ending grief until I close the Macbook and go do something. However if I'm reading a book then she sees no problem and will leave me alone for hours.
Fast forward to last night. I climb into bed and cue up my book and start to read on the ipad. "Turn the pad off and go to bed"
Can't win...
But here is my plan.
hollowed out into ipad case
So I can read a book on my pad in my book
Oh well happy wife happy life
My GF is very anti tech and will give me never ending grief until I close the Macbook and go do something. However if I'm reading a book then she sees no problem and will leave me alone for hours.
Fast forward to last night. I climb into bed and cue up my book and start to read on the ipad. "Turn the pad off and go to bed"
Can't win...
But here is my plan.
hollowed out into ipad case
So I can read a book on my pad in my book
Oh well happy wife happy life
Yeah I can't really say wife, the the love of my life girlfriend, I tell you what...
She was so royally pissed that I bought the iPad. She's upset that I used my graduation money(I'm about to turn 19 in 18 days) and I'm about to graduate high school.
Now, mind you, she's 21 and graduated 2 years ago...but also, mind you, I started college before I started my junior year of high school and I'm about to graduate college too. So far I've gotten over 10,000$ free college from the state of Ohio and I got about 3,000$ in scholarships coming.
But she hates that I have it, I think because I don't have bills and can afford it...although she doesn't know she's getting one for her birthday
She was so royally pissed that I bought the iPad. She's upset that I used my graduation money(I'm about to turn 19 in 18 days) and I'm about to graduate high school.
Now, mind you, she's 21 and graduated 2 years ago...but also, mind you, I started college before I started my junior year of high school and I'm about to graduate college too. So far I've gotten over 10,000$ free college from the state of Ohio and I got about 3,000$ in scholarships coming.
But she hates that I have it, I think because I don't have bills and can afford it...although she doesn't know she's getting one for her birthday
My fiance hates it, so I put it on craigslist for $900 to ease her nerves. That way, she'll either get over it by the time the listing's up or I'll sell it and make $300. Win-win
Well, I got the email today.. I took it off of craigslist and put it on amazon (since it's more reliable). Sold it and made a nice $200ish profit, minus seller fees of about $50.
She's been doing nothing but starting arguments over the past 5 days because of the iPad. We're 23, are getting married in a year and a half, and she thinks that me keeping this is throwing away money that could be going towards a wedding. Or kid's college (keep in mind, we don't have kids currently). Or a car (for her). She's just been into the whole "his money is now my money" mentality, and when I bring it up she freaks out.
I bet everyone else is jealous that they don't get this type of drama on their primetime lineup
I should be getting more graduation $ soon, at which time she'll forget about why she was pissy the first time and just shut up and let me keep the next one. Still going to be a 32GB wifi