Journal Journal: torture results
The items: 1 cheap-ass MP3 player, 1 silicone skin in the iPod box, and the nano in a tree-shaped box used as an ornament on the tree.
MP3 player was first, and got the expected very non-plussed reaction. She told me afterwards she was thinking "you got a life drive and you bought me this cheap piece of crap that looks like you got it free from a bank?"
The nano box was next, and was just a confused "what?" And since she didn't even know the nano was supposed to be in the box (not having seen one before, and the "artistic" nature of Apple's packaging), it was not the "ok, cool, here it is" that I expected.
So at that point I had to get the nano box out, simply to get any kind of reaction beyond "eh". Of course she loves it. I also got her good headphones (sennheisers; she hates earbuds) and a set of "clamp on the lid" speakers for her iBook (for when she doesn't want headphones, say our son's naptime when she needs to hear when he wakes up; built in speakers are a bit tinny...).
The other bit of amusement was that she told me that she had started to go to my journal a while back, saw the title, and didn't read any further. She thought sure that "torture" meant that I was going to do what she explicitly told me not to: no pink accessories and no pink iPods! Luckily I was smart enough to know better than to try that
So all told, amusing, but not the sequence of reactions I expected (other than the initial one). Probably doesn't help that we were up beaucoup late last night getting ready, or that the relatives got delayed by weather, or that last night's planned viewing of the Polar Express with the train-obsessed boy turned out exactly like the theater last year--"turn it off" after 20 minutes. Sigh. He likes the IDEA of the Polar Express, but the movie scares him because he's worrying about the boy walking on top of the train, and how loud it is. Ah well, that Christmas tradition can wait until he's ready.