Sadness

I must inform the world of my pain. Last weekend Infinity Ward decided to do a double EXP weekend for Call of Duty 4. O.K. here it comes, my wife stayed home from work all weekend. “Sigh” And now is not the time to raise my strong pimp hand, see she’s pregnant. Fellas, just get used to it. Your ability to alter your woman’s thought process goes out the window when they are pregnant. They have a hard enough time applying common sense for themselves. Hot water anyone? (sorry, inside joke)

See the thing is my wife sees CoD4 as a violent game not appropriate for our children. I say if my daughters can rationalize digital blood from real blood I did something wrong as a parent. Besides, my five year old is my cheerleader.

So I played as much as I could from Friday night till the end of Sunday. Any guesses on how much time I put into my EXP this last weekend? Maybe 6 hours, a measly 6 hours! On a weekend without the crutch I could pull of 6 hours before lunch. I have to admit that I have an addiction to this game. I mean if uncontrollable shaking and hallucinating occur when I don’t get to play are signs of addiction. Then yeah, I’m addicted. No other game exists in my world. I have taken days off of work to play. On average I pull about 30 hours of killing from Friday night till Sunday night. That sounds low to me, if I wasn’t married with children. I could easily pull 48 hours, with about 6 hours sleep.

If you think about it, how many times do I hear “Grenada!” in a weekend? And then on top of the addiction I have found the Holy Grail. I know I’m late to the party but there is nothing more fun then inviting your buddy to a cage match and getting a shotgun in your face, repeatedly that is, or tossing grenades back and forth. Or even, “hey set a claymore here and another one here, and stand here. Then I’ll shoot this one, it’ll blow up and set this one off, then it’ll blow up that car your standing on.” Yeah, that’s cool.

So, since I usually get 30 hours on a weekend and it being a double EXP weekend it could have really been 60 hours. And I only got 6 hours, she owes me 54 hours of play time. That equation makes since to me. How about you?

Anybody got any creative ways to talk her into that? Trust me, I’ll try anything!