I just signed up for Netflix. I know. It's old news. Seems everyone has been "doing" Netflix forever. I never really got into it because I didn't think I was that much of a movie person. And then last Saturday I changed my mind.
There's a big difference between "not being a movie person" and "not watching a lot of movies". I thought I was in the former group. After this weekend I realized I'm really in the latter. I like watching movies. Usually. It's just that the hubby and I don't watch many. Or rather, we don't watch many "together".
Typical Friday/ Saturday night at our house:
me: whatcha want to do tonight?? ('cuz we all know getting dolled up to go dancing or bar hopping is not in the cards for this duo....)
hubby: uh, I don't know. (which is his standard response. It kills me. and I usually respond with:)
me: oh, for the love of Pete!! get an opinion!!!
... and then we digress into an argument. Oh wait. That doesn't happen every time. I got sidetracked. Backtrack and let's try this again.
me: whatcha want to do tonight??
hubby: uh, I don't know.
me: how about we rent a movie?
hubby: ok.
I tune to iControl and we start scrolling through the movies. I start naming the ones I wouldn't mind watching. He stays silent, which I can only conclude means he's not interested in what I'm suggesting. Finally, after no response, I ask him to please name some he's interested in so we can come to some agreement and get on with the actual movie-watching. He may mention a few that I really have absolutely NO interest in seeing. Or he may respond with "I'm really not in the mood to watch a movie".
Fine. Whatever.
As you can imagine, the evening proceeds with no movie purchased and watched.
But don't get me wrong. There are LOTS that I'd like to see. I do try and watch one on occasion when he's not home. But since he's usually traveling during the week I don't watch many. You know, kind of an unspoken rule for myself that I can't stay up late and watch movies on a "school night". Or there are so many I want to watch I don't have enough time. And at $5 a pop I don't want to accidentally run up a $50 extra on our cable bill for the month. (which, given the chance, I'm sure I could do, no problem.)
So I'm trying Netflix. I chose the queue. If he wants to watch them with me then GREAT! If not I guess I'm having date night by myself. Which could be construed into many things but I won't go there....
1 comment:
my man's the SAME way, except he will eventually sit down and watch whatever I'm watching regardless of if he likes it or not (it's the whole moth/flame syndrome).
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