What do you tell your good lady......

JSalinger · 12-11-06, 01:53 AM

Tell her to be thankful you're having an affair with your PC instead of having an affair with an actual woman.

I tell my girlfriend that I'm studying for my calculus exams and refreshing my geometry and trigonometry skills (even though technically the calculus really doesn't apply...).

As for my mother, I tell her that 1) At least it's keeping me from making her a grandma ten years early and 2) that it's better than me hanging out with ex-friends who I used to hang out (they smoke, do drugs, drink booze, snatch purses, etc).

Sailor Steve · 12-11-06, 11:44 AM

That's what a friend of mine said when his wife complained about their kids taking up tabletop miniatures wargaming: "At least it's keeping them off the streets".

Corsair · 12-11-06, 01:02 PM

Gee, before computers I did spend a lot of time playing tabletop wargaming, mainly 1/285th WWII with Command Decision rules or a Naval game called Amirauté IIRC... There was the fun of having all players in the same room with coke and chips for the weekend, which you can today only have by organizing LAN parties...
PS : forgot Squad Leader...

Hylander_1314 · 12-11-06, 10:05 PM

Flowers, nice jewelry, not for frogiveness, but as actual gifts. Out of the blue with no reason (they love it, the attention). Take her dinner when you've successfully completed a patrol so you can celebrate, or something of that nature.

nightdagger · 12-11-06, 11:02 PM

And when you're at dinner, refuse all autographs (read: don't ask for them) for sinking that destroyer with a head-on shot.

12-11-06, 01:53 AM	#1
JSalinger Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Spokane, WA, USA Posts: 156 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Tell her to be thankful you're having an affair with your PC instead of having an affair with an actual woman. I tell my girlfriend that I'm studying for my calculus exams and refreshing my geometry and trigonometry skills (even though technically the calculus really doesn't apply...). As for my mother, I tell her that 1) At least it's keeping me from making her a grandma ten years early and 2) that it's better than me hanging out with ex-friends who I used to hang out (they smoke, do drugs, drink booze, snatch purses, etc). __________________ J. Salinger King of the House

12-11-06, 11:44 AM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	That's what a friend of mine said when his wife complained about their kids taking up tabletop miniatures wargaming: "At least it's keeping them off the streets". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-11-06, 01:02 PM	#3
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Gee, before computers I did spend a lot of time playing tabletop wargaming, mainly 1/285th WWII with Command Decision rules or a Naval game called Amirauté IIRC... There was the fun of having all players in the same room with coke and chips for the weekend, which you can today only have by organizing LAN parties... PS : forgot Squad Leader... __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

12-11-06, 10:05 PM	#4
Hylander_1314 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2006 Location: 5 Miles Inland West Of Lake Huron Posts: 1,936 Downloads: 139 Uploads: 0	Flowers, nice jewelry, not for frogiveness, but as actual gifts. Out of the blue with no reason (they love it, the attention). Take her dinner when you've successfully completed a patrol so you can celebrate, or something of that nature. __________________ A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -John Marshall Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ---------------------

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12-11-06, 11:02 PM	#5
nightdagger Officer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 243 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	And when you're at dinner, refuse all autographs (read: don't ask for them) for sinking that destroyer with a head-on shot.