Our wireless had been acting up for the past few days, or even up to a week--we may have just been busy and ignorant to it. But today I was trying to do a bunch of stuff that required a solid internet connection, and BOY. It was frustrating times a bazillion. Eric and I both got kinda snippety and irritated. And I thought: Golly, isn't it amazing how something that we would've never dreamed of as children has become so integral to our lives that 24 hours of malfunction causes us to get snippety and irritated?
It's funny--while the internet was down, I just sorta dealt with it by staying only mildly frustrated and using neighbors' low-quality connections, and hoping that Eric would figure it out. Later, after he called the cable company and the two of us finagled with the damn modem and our laptops a bajillion times and finally got it fixed, I admitted to him that I really should've tried to fix the damn thing last night, or at least this morning. But I was lazy, or something, and I hoped he would do it/call the cable company instead. "You're better at that kinda stuff," I told him.
He called me on my total bullsh*t, and reminded me of the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond in which Patricia finds out that Ray's been pretending for years to be awful at everything to get out of it: laundry, dishes, sending thank you cards, etc. And the truth is, I'm perfectly capable of calling the cable company, or troubleshooting broken appliances. And he's perfectly capable of doing domestic stuff. So there's no real excuse but just plain don't-wannas. And I'm glad we're able to laugh about that.
(We don't actually watch Everybody Loves Raymond. I think we just happened to see that episode one day. It's a pretty funny show, I'll give it that much.)
2 comments:
i saw a rerun of that episode recently! internet and tv, two things that are really hard to do without.
that reminds me of when I was little, I used to pretend to not know how to fold stockings so I could just toss it to Sarah and do towels which are so easy to fold because of their regular shape.
That show is funny, but I still hate it. Ray is such an ass. You know, I started watching the Office, and at first I thought it was so boring, but now it's like comfort food, and so easy on the attention span (only 20 minutes per episode).
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