When my husband made his Christmas list, I checked it twice to make sure Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t on it. He’s not on the naughty list. But if he gets MW3 he will be, because it will cause WWIII in our house.
Unfortunately, besides the requisite new pair of slippers, it’s the only thing he wants. So I’ve been on damage control since Black Friday by telling his friends and family not to buy him that game. I think my mother in law is on board, since she blames the older version for her lack of grandchildren.
I know I’m not the only female praying Santa doesn’t leave the season’s most popular video game under the tree. As many other women have discovered, if a man gets Call of Duty, he’ll neglect all his other duties for months. That first generation of little boys who played Super Mario Brothers might have grown up, but they’ll never grow out of gaming. Now instead of their mothers telling them to quit playing and come down for dinner, their wives and girlfriends have to do it.
We exist between checkpoints and matches. While they’re planning attacks and scoping out the best sniper hideouts, we’re preparing dinner, paying bills, and walking the dog– with the unnerving sound of explosions and gunshots booming from the next room. But unless you construct a physical barrier between a man and his television, limiting playtime is impossible. After he beats the game, he can play infinate matches on Xbox Live with strangers from down south or little boys from England.
Even tried-and true-ways to his heart like these won’t get him to remove his headset:
Me: We’d better go. The movie starts in an hour.
Hubby: I’m in the middle of a match.
Me: We’re supposed to be at your parents house for dinner now.
Hubby: Let me get to the next checkpoint first.
Me: It’s late, I’m going to bed.
Hubby: Uh alright. I’ll be there in a few minutes.
As annoying as his gaming is, the worst part is that there’s nothing I can do that compares. There’s no amount of People Magazine discussion groups I can host or Teen Mom marathons I can watch that even come close.
And after he reads this, I’ll probably have to buy him the game after all.
Oh god, I lived in a house with5 guys in college, wanted to snap the second one in half!
I can’t imagine! Just one gamer is enough to drive a girl crazy :p
lol I hear you, try W.O.W. my guy is a total gamer years of playing it hours upon hours a day. ( but I make it a point to distract him makes it much easier dirty little text or the right words yeah the game has no chance with me) lol
haha whatever works!
As annoying as his gaming is, the worst part is that there’s nothing I can do that compares. There’s no amount of People Magazine discussion groups I can host or Teen Mom marathons I can watch that even come close.
And after he reads this, I’ll probably have to buy him the game after all.
Bwahahaha! This made me laugh, ahem. Well i have completed the game 33%, and it’s a damn good game. I feel for your husband, deprived of such a good action game. But here’s what i can confess, unbiased i mean, i work 11 hrs a day, 2 of which are gone in traveling to and fro from my work place, so i am absent from my home for almost 13 hours. When i return to my home, i have roughly 4 hours to relax, have dinner, spend time with family, occasional facebooking/surfing the net AND if i can get some time, PC games!. And you know what?. Ever since i bought this MW3, i am not able to spend time with my family, for which i feel guilty.
I think if your husband can keep a balance b/w all of his (husbandish duties), damn it get him the game
I didn’t have to get it for him because his mom did for Christmas :p You’re right– he needs to balance his time (or his new video game might accidentally disappear). Thanks for the advice!
Lol, i really hope he balances his time, loss of such a game, hard to bear
Sadly, I am one of those who get entirely too absorbed. That last exchange between you and your husband happens all the time. And I drag my butt to bed HOURS after he went upstairs. I feel for you.
Poor guy–I feel for him! What are you playing?