The Digital Camera Comes Home To Pappa
After all of my research, I am now psyched to get a new camera in the digital age. I will admit that I move pretty slowly on decisions like this. I mean really slow… I just got my first Apple iPod last Christmas and am still moving my favorite music to it… but back to our subject here.
I brought my new camera home that same afternoon (I suppose that would make some sense, eh?). The one thing that I had not done was to tell my dearly beloved was that I was going to spend about $800 for my camera (camera, plus one more lens, a 55-200mm zoom).
I got home from the camera store and quietly tucked my new digital camera away in a downstairs closet until I could figure out a way to break the news to my wife. I went back upstairs, made lunch, and waited for my wife to return home from her weekend errands.
She finally returned, with shopping bags in hand and proclaimed, “I just found some clothes that I love! Let me show you!”. This typically does not happen often. My wife has a very hard time finding fun clothes because she is about 5′-1/8″ feet tall.
Anyways, she pulled out everything she had bought, tried it on and showed it off to me. I was secretly thinking to myself “my god, she’s spent about $800 dollars on new clothes”. “Man, she really went to town this time.” Then an “ahaaa!” went off in my head. “She’s spent $800 and I’ve spent $800… It’s a wash.”
I had some faith in my knowledge of clothing costs, so I was pretty confident about my numbers. “Honey”, I said, “I absolutely love what you’ve picked out,” (which I really did) ”they are all very becoming and I think you’ve done really well.” I waited for a reply from her…
I was hoping that she would agree. You know, as a spouse, this can become a very touchy moment in time. Some spouses in this situation might respond with a “you know, I’m just not sure that I really like it. Do you really like it?”, as if they need reassurance. Obviously, I was really hoping that I could tell her about my $800 camera purchase without having her flip out.
But her response to my original compliment was “I really like these as well. I think I did pretty well today.” This was all I needed. I knew she was happy with her purchase… I also knew that what she had picked out was indeed good looking. But I wasn’t ready to tell her about MY $800 purchase yet. I wanted her to enjoy the moment a bit more.
About five minutes later, I sprung the news to her. “Honey”, I said. “I had a great day myself.” “Oh really? What did you do?” she responded.
“Well, you know how that old film camera that we have doesn’t seem to work anymore?” I asked. “Yes”, she responded. “Well I decided that we needed a new camera”. “Oh, really.”, she commented. “Yes, I need a new camera because we are missing too many key moments in time and our point and shoot camera just isn’t working out anymore. ”
A long pause… “and, so I’ve bought a new camera”. “Oh really”, this was less of a question from my beloved. “Yup, I bought a Nikon D40, it is a highly rated camera that is going to last us for long period of time”. “What did it cost?” she quickly asked. I paused, “Ummm, about $800″.
I waited for her to pass out, and then I waited a bit longer. “That’s good” she said. Oh my god, I couldn’t believe it. It worked, I just spent $800 and my wife responded with a simple “That’s good”.
“Thank you Lord”, I said to myself, “I’ll never sin again”. It worked and I was excited. I went downstairs and grabbed my new camera “out-of-the closet”, brought it back upstairs and proudly showed it off to my wife. She loved it, thought it was great and was very happy for me.
It was a great day. Not only did I finally get a decent camera, my wife also found some clothing that she really liked and we were both happy with the final outcome.
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