Written by Loggahead

Aggro

I caught a LOT of flak from my wife on my last article. She said that I was “downright mean” and should feel bad about all the jolly I poked at about cuddling, etc.
Ah well, I win some and I lose some. Yes, my wife reads these. She finds them quite comical actually . . . hopefully I can get her to write one of her own some day . . . that would be an interesting perspective! This Article is another one dedicated to a friend. . .

 

Hello!?

One of my best friends, a soon-to-be-married, read the last article (Wife Aggro: The Knock) and called me today and gave me some material for a Wife Aggro Quickie. I had been wondering if my boy, blackflybynite, was ever going to finally settle down and get married. He started dating a right-on perfect girl just before he got deployed for a one year term in Iraq with the U.S. Army.

His long-distance relationship turned into engagement not too long after getting back stateside. Also after getting back from Iraq, I talked him into buying a 360 and a few games so we could get together online and catch up and share some frags together. All is good for now as they are living hundreds of miles apart still . . . lets cross our fingers for after the wedding.

So, he called me up today and told me how his wireless 360 mic got him in trouble. So he was in a game of Rainbow 6 when his fiancée called him to talk about wedding plans. Oh brother . . . he decides to try and multitask, a trait that men generally aren’t known to excel in. He makes the attempt to talk to his fiancée about the said wedding plans all while playing some R6 online at the same time. Picture this:

• • His cellphone’s Bluetooth headset in one ear

  • His wireless 360 communicator in the other ear

  • 360 controller in hand

So being the perfect multi-tasker, he goes at it. He’s doing a splendid job switching back and forth between in-game chat and wedding plans, all the while having a feeling of accomplishment that he was a man AND he was multitasking!

That is until everyone in his R6 game started to chatter:

“Dude, what the $%*& are you talking about!? Get a load of this guy online talking to his girl about wedding plans!”

That’s when it hit him that he forgot to press the mute button on 360 Communicator . . . At that same time, his fiancee caught wind of it all too:

“Are you playing your game again? You’re not paying attention to me, why aren’t you talking?”

It went downhill quite rapidly for ole blackflybynite. His pride was hit by some random players online who witnessed his softer side and all the while he brought on some aggro. . . That was multi-tasking gone bad. Fear not, it happens to the best of us!

Moral? Generally us men are NOT good multi-taskers. In that light, be extra careful trying to take on the role when wife aggro could be involved. If not, you may reap some not so favorable consequences . . .