I know! How unbelievable is that?
Here's the thing. Over the weekend we went to Media Markt (one of GLH's favorite stores, second only to Conrad). Why? Well, "Gadget Boy" needed some electronics. What did he need? Couldn't tell you. You think I have any say in what electronics the man buys?
Except for Guitar Hero II. I've put my foot down on that one. He already spends too much time in front of a computer. An addictive and extremely loud video game in order to blast heavy metal music is not entering this home! But I digress...
Anyway, while he was hunting up what he needed, I meandered around the store and happened upon some cordless stick vacuums. It occurred to me that cleaning up after the cats, specifically their litter area, would be much easier if I had a small and easy cordless vacuum instead of having to drag out the much heavier one.
So when GLH had picked out his electronics, I pointed at this one.
Of course, the new vacuum is a gadget just like any other gadget. So perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised last night when he started vacuuming. After 11 at night. Directly beneath the bedroom of our upstairs neighbor's 3 year old daughter.
Which is why I had to go and demand my husband stop vacuuming.
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What?? No Guitar Hero II?? Really that is the thing you chose to put your foot down on?? But but but it's EXERCISE. I really think you should let him get one - and preferably before February 6th.
We experienced Guitar Hero when we were in Cleveland. It's a safety risk for anyone older than 35. With the way GLH was swinging around with the "guitar," I grew concerned that he might throw his back out!
I was at the nephew's house the other day. They have the Wii thing, which I had played previously (beating him in the baseball game while, at the same time, hyperextending my elbow). Anyway, this time they were all excited about Guitar Hero and wanted me to play. So I did.
Yeah, not so much.
Hello, my name is The Big Finn, and...I'm a vacuum-a-holic! I vacuum every single day, including (sometimes) Sunday. We have a Dyson "animalpro" and it's purple. I love it. Vacuuming is DEFINITELY one of my favorite pastimes.
I often listen to my iPod while I vacuum, and every now and then I've been known to launch into one helluva guitar solo using the telescoping handle of the vacuum as my guitar.
I'm wondering if Guitar Hero could somehow be incorporated into a vacuum cleaner. Hmmmm....
TBF: I am honored that you feel safe enough in this forum to share this aspect of your neurosis.
Assuming the police have as little to do where you live as they did in Basel, GLH is lucky it was you that told him to stop vacuuming and not the Polizei. I worked with someone whose neighbors called the police because he allegedly closed his doors too loudly after 10:00pm...
Fortunately our neighbors are also expats, we are good friends and there are only two apartments in the building. They would have spoken to us first.
Even though the risk of Polizei interference was pretty much non-existent, I still didn't want the vacuum to wake up their daughter!
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