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Journal elmegil's Journal: need suggestions for an interesting way to torture my wife 17

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My wife has asked for, and will receive an iPod nano for this holiday season (and here's hoping that she doesn't decide to come drifting over here any time soon; she doesn't usually read my journal....)

But what I'd like to do is give her something else as a "replacement", and then come out with the iPod later. I can't give her coal, because she definitely has not been that bad a girl this year :-). I'm pulling a blank for something that cleverly "replaces" the iPod while still being reasonable in cost (a nano is no small investment after all). Anyone have any good ideas?

To perhaps further clarify, I'm looking for something that implies that I'm "unclear on the concept". A good example is when I was in HS and desperately wanted D&D stuff, and my dad bought the cheezy "dungeon" board game and a copy of the greyhawk manual instead, not realizing they couldn't possibly work together. Since I had no dice, and no DM manual, no monster manual, none of that, the greyhawk book did me no good.

And for those of you who thought this was about something else, shame on you. I have plenty of ideas for that stuff.

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  • At Fry's that play MP3s in the $40-$50 range. "Sorry honey, couldn't afford a nano but I can show you how to transcode for this thing. Oh yeah, and you can only hold about an hour's worth of music on it, at a really crappy bitrate..."

    • I like that idea. Get the cheapest crappiest mp3 player out there and load it with music that's close to, but not quite, what she likes. Perhaps some "Tribute To" music of some of her favorite artists? And don't make any smart remarks, just sit there with a beaming smile and be proud that you were able to get her exactly what she wanted.

      Truly evil...

      1. A pair of gloves in a gift box - with one glove missing ("gee honey, I must have thrown it out when I was cleaning up the wrapping paper". Make jokes about one hand clapping) - hide the other glove in her coat pocket.
      2. A usb thumb drive (useful in its own right, and yu can tell her all her music is now "portable" - they even have one that will play mp3s)
      3. Put the USB drive in the glove box with the one glove. This way, you get to open the USB drive and make sure something else is "missing" as well.

      (yes, so

  • How about an empty ipod case? Or how about an iPod hoodie:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 8JEVA8/qid=1134416344/sr=8-26/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i11_x gl193/002-6065423-3572028?v=glance&n=507846 [amazon.com]
    Or maybe even this thing:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 83HIL8/002-6065423-3572028?v=glance&s=toys&n=50784 6 [amazon.com]

    The empty case would be fun (the uglier the better); you could say something like, "What, there isn't an iPod in it? I thought it came with an iPod!!!!" Then you can pro

    • Ah, a shame that the iDog won't be out until Jan 1....that'd be hilarious. I'm thinking the case is a good plan, though it's tempting to go thrifting for horrible boxed sets :-). I'll have to see what time I can find for that.
  • Which cheesy dungeon boardgame was this? Was it one of the "Dungeon Dwellers" (Caverns of Doom or Sorcerers Crypt) boardgames? I got one of those for xmas one year, and it got me interested in "real" D&D :-) I wish my mom hadn't thrown mine out (along with who knows how much D&D stuff) when she emptied my room after I left home :-(
  • I would hit a garage sale or a second-hand store, and buy a whole bunch of vinyl record box sets. Something like Barbara Streisand or Roger Whittaker. Whatever kind of music she detests the most. Buy 3 different sets, and then in the last set of the bunch, remove the records and put in foam, and carve a little spot for the nano in the foam. You could even wrap all three separately, and force to unwrap them one by one and look inside, watching her dismay...

    Of course, the real challenge is all in the actin
  • Start her on a treasure hunt. At the first location give her a note telling her to go to the bathroom and look on a bottle under the sink. She then has to call the phone number to get the next clue. And so on...

    The last place would, of course, have her nano.

    Or lay string or yarn all over the house and tell her to follow the it and her present will be there. It is quite fun when they wake up and see a maze of string blocking one central room in the house. It is more fun watching them try to contort the
  • Just give her some money and tell her she can buy it herself.

    Do that with all her other gifts, too. Nothing says, "I couldn't be bothered to think of anything that you might really enjoy, so I'll let you pick out, buy, & wrap your own presents."

    Oh, wait... you probably didn't want to be cruel -- you just wanted to have fun, didn't you?

    ....Bethanie....
  • Tape players are still in, you know. :)
  • Does your wife read your slashdot journal by any chance?

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