Post#10 » Sat May 25, 2019 9:56 am
On the subject of awesome wives, I humbly submit an incident that took place a few weeks ago.
Kath and I took a trip to New Orleans for our 20th wedding anniversary.
About two weeks before the trip, she pointed out that the AirBnB we would be staying at on 4/28 did not have a TV, so I wouldn't be able to watch Game of Thrones (I should point out that although I watch GoT every week, she is not a fan of anything fantasy- or medieval-oriented, and the only GoT she's ever seen is when she walks past the living room while I'm watching it). Then she showed me an ad for a GoT watching party at this local pub, with the show on a big projection screen, and asked if I would like to go? So of course I said yes.
The bar was a small local place, with about maybe 60 seats, but every seat was filled and there were maybe 20 more people standing. And we sat there in the dark, a bunch of strangers, and watched the battle of Winterfell. Watching GoT among a large group of fans was a completely different experience than watching in my living room. I was thrilled.
The flip side of this was that my wife, who doesn't like fantasy movies/TV shows at all, got her first experience with GoT in a pub so packed she couldn't get to the bar, and watched an episode that was all combat, and all so dark it was barely visible, and was bored to death for 82 minutes.
"No matter where you go, there you are."