Around here, we don’t play well with others. We especially don’t share too well. I don’t like other people touching my STUFF, is a commonly heard phrase around here. It’s a movie quote, I think, but I’ve claimed it as my own. I think it comes from being the eldest child watching my much-loved collection of china dolls be destroyed by a much too hands-on baby sister. Or maybe from too much time with no one to share with. Whatever it was, this happened.
Kel has taken a liking to the iPad. He loves it more than the original flirtation with angry birds {hussy}. He loves it so much that often it can be found with a low battery, slipped securely in the side of the couch between the armrest and the cushion. I have been kind of zen about it, picking it back up, charging it and not even losing my head when I get to a cafe to work, and it’s flat. I would say sweetly, honey, charge it. Baby, don’t shove it down the side of the couch. Babykins, where the feck is it!! {Because I am nothing if not cutesy with my pet names}
But last night I HAD to say something. Head down, butt up, searching the insides of the couch for the smart case that had come unattached. Concerned for my freshly painted nails. Teeth clenched against the narky words of narkiness. Then Hubby decided to do his little “, haha, my account has cash in it, and you spent all yours” dance. {True story}. Well, perhaps, I said, you should use some of that cash to buy your own damn iPad. I scowled my lip and raised an unruly eyebrow {because they are more terrifying, you see}. He said it wasn’t really a priority for him at the moment.
Not.
A.
Priority.
Well, leave mine the hell alone, I said, continuing with the arched unruly eyebrow. Then I flounced off for a bath. “No worries”, he called out behind me., it’s not a priority”. As I write this, it is less than 4 hours later, and it’s back where I fished it from. It’s tucked into the side of the couch. Smart case slipping off. Less than 4 hours, people. And it would’ve been sooner, but I took the iPad into the bathroom with me to watch ABC iView in the bath. So, he held out for like 20 minutes. Not a priority, my ass.
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I say strap it to your body 24/7 until he buys his own shiny brand new one, then claim the new one as your own. You know, since he’s already so used to the old one and all.
I’m not good at sharing either. Too much time living alone, saving every cent necessary to buy what I have. It’s mine, don’t touch it!
Haha. Excellent idea!
Haha! This sounds EXACTLY like my husband Ben and I!! I am forever looking for my iPad, it’s usually down the side of the couch or hidden under our bed after many hours on angry birds or you tube. He’s the opposite when it comes to charging – he’s like the percentage police!
Haha. Love it! Percentage police, hmmm, that’ll be me. š
Kevi Horn go out and buy your own iPad and stop touching Suger’s stuff!!
Haha. My thoughts exactly!
You guys are all sorts of funny. Are you sure you and Kel weren’t separated at birth from Ben and I?Oh how we have had these types of discussions over the years lol.
We do our best. š Sometimes I wonder if other people are like this, I’m glad to hear they are. Haha.
Haha! I’m not super good at sharing either, but with stuff like that we can manage a general “i use it in the day, you use it at night” sort of deal! or a one week on, one week off arrangement!!
Geeez, you’re a much better sharer than I am. One week off would send me around the bend. Haha.