This might be a little exagerrated, but we will all be familiar with it..... so......
You are entertainnig guests...... they are coming around for dinner. You have faithfully promised the other half that just for tonight you will not talk endlessly about hi-fi..... in fact it is now such a marriage endangering subject that you promise that you will not even mention it, because tonight is important..... you are instructed that she justs wants it all to be, you know, normal.
So there you are dressed in those horrible chino's that she likes and that you always seem to spill something on, and a a shirt that has been picked out and ironed and forced on you (because wearing that comfy Prodigy long sleeve T from their '99 tour is NOT normal).
Anyway the dinner goes well, you do not mention a damn thing about your stereo..... when she starts going on about it, about how you are infatuated with it and that she feels like a total widow to it. Her story pulls a little laugh followed by a silence, when the opposite male turns to you and starts asking you about it..... this causes your other half to give those 'you promised' eyes.....
But this guy is spouting about how he thinks that all this 'Hi-fi' stuff is nonsence and a scam. He bought a sensibly priced Technics system back in the day, from Currys, and that does him and it sounds great and Technics are supposed to be great and he has never heard anything to beat it....... slowly knocking down your resistance to retaliate.... eventually you can longer say 'yeah....' passively anymore.... screw the wife, she mentioned it first.... it is not as if you bought it up, you were provoked......
So you lay it all down on the line and explain hi-fi as you see it, how it does not have to be seen as pretentious and expensive and that it is (sonically) worth it..... by this time the wife has frozen you, decamped to other side of the room and started drinking gin (which always makes her violent)...... and you tell your new Technics mate that you could show him with one song why hi-fi is so great.... partially this is said to show him that it would only take one song to convert him and partially because with wifey in her current state anything more than one song means divorce..... and he calls your bluff
'Go on then, one song...........'
So you have one chance and one chance only............ what song would you pick to show case your entire system and convert this guy to the cause?
As I said this is a fictional scenario that has never happened to me; but if this is something like a night that you have actually had... might I suggest that you ring Relate on 0300 100 1234.
You are entertainnig guests...... they are coming around for dinner. You have faithfully promised the other half that just for tonight you will not talk endlessly about hi-fi..... in fact it is now such a marriage endangering subject that you promise that you will not even mention it, because tonight is important..... you are instructed that she justs wants it all to be, you know, normal.
So there you are dressed in those horrible chino's that she likes and that you always seem to spill something on, and a a shirt that has been picked out and ironed and forced on you (because wearing that comfy Prodigy long sleeve T from their '99 tour is NOT normal).
Anyway the dinner goes well, you do not mention a damn thing about your stereo..... when she starts going on about it, about how you are infatuated with it and that she feels like a total widow to it. Her story pulls a little laugh followed by a silence, when the opposite male turns to you and starts asking you about it..... this causes your other half to give those 'you promised' eyes.....
But this guy is spouting about how he thinks that all this 'Hi-fi' stuff is nonsence and a scam. He bought a sensibly priced Technics system back in the day, from Currys, and that does him and it sounds great and Technics are supposed to be great and he has never heard anything to beat it....... slowly knocking down your resistance to retaliate.... eventually you can longer say 'yeah....' passively anymore.... screw the wife, she mentioned it first.... it is not as if you bought it up, you were provoked......
So you lay it all down on the line and explain hi-fi as you see it, how it does not have to be seen as pretentious and expensive and that it is (sonically) worth it..... by this time the wife has frozen you, decamped to other side of the room and started drinking gin (which always makes her violent)...... and you tell your new Technics mate that you could show him with one song why hi-fi is so great.... partially this is said to show him that it would only take one song to convert him and partially because with wifey in her current state anything more than one song means divorce..... and he calls your bluff
'Go on then, one song...........'
So you have one chance and one chance only............ what song would you pick to show case your entire system and convert this guy to the cause?
As I said this is a fictional scenario that has never happened to me; but if this is something like a night that you have actually had... might I suggest that you ring Relate on 0300 100 1234.
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