ipod

I come home last Friday and there is a gift from the wife and the boy. I open it and it is the 2 gig ipod nano. I am very excited about this. Hugs and kisses all around. I tell them it is a great gift and I couldn't believe they thought of something so nice.

On the inside I am bullshit. I don't want the fucking 2 gig nano. If I was going to get a fucking nano I would get the 4 gig. The truth I had my heart set on the video ipod. I was planning on using my birthday money to price them out.

My wife knew this. I had said that I was going to look at ipods. She thought it would be nice to get me one. She said the 4 gig was 50 dollars more, but that it holds 1000 songs. She didn't think I would need to put 1000 songs on my ipod.

Nice of her to think that. The 2 gig is really nice. I like the ipod. I like the ipod product I should say. I was upset about not having any say in choosing it, but I am trying to be better about getting pissed about gifts. I know people have my best interest in mind, so I didn't want to flip out.

This was on Friday.

Saturday we had the birthday party. I was listening to the ipod while I cleaned the house. Works awesome. The party was a great time. I got a little drunk, and got to hang out with friends I hadn't seen in like a year.

Sunday was even better. The wife and I got to sleep in. We had breakfast, and then around noon my folks dropped the boy off. We took the boy to the park. We walked about 3 miles with him at the park.

I'm listening to the ipod the whole time. Getting used to the idea of a 2 gig ipod.

We get home and I curl up on the couch to watch TV. The wife comes in and says this:

Wife: "We're going to use your 130 dollars for the ipod right?"

Me: "What 130 dollars?"

Wife: "My grandparents gave you 30 dollars and your folks usually give you 100 dollars for your birthday."

Me: "So I have to pay for my birthday present?"

This upsets my wife.

Wife: "It was an expensive gift Jay. I only bought it because you said you were going to look at them with your birthday money. I thought since you were going to get one with your money anyway I would get it for you and you would use your money towards the bill."

Now I am fucking freaking out in my head. Just going nuts.

I am holding my tonuge, but in my head I am thinking "Well if I was going to buy one it wouldn't be the fucking 2 gig one!" I just can't believe her logic. She is acting like I should know that this is how it was going to be.

I am just pissed that I didn't tell her right away that this wasn't the one I wanted. Especially since I'm fucking paying for it! I explain to her that I said I was going to check the ipods out, and that I really wanted a video ipod.

The wife comes back with saying they are like 280 dollars. I said I was aware of that and was planning on seeing what I got for cash on the birthday. I wasn't planning on dropping cash for this. I was going to use birthday money, and when I say that, it does in no way mean that I am definitely going to buy it. It sure as shit doesn't mean buy me the cheapest version of what I want and expect me to pay for it.

So I tell her that if I couldn't get the video ipod I might get the nano, but not the 2 gig one. I said more than anything I would have liked the choice to have been mine. I told her I was pissed that I was expected to pay for a birthday present, and if that was her plan then she never should have gotten it in the first place because it was most definitely not the one I wanted.

She tells me she has never been more shocked by me than she is right now. She spends the rest of the night ignoring me.

I don't give in to the game. If she had told me on Friday I was paying for the gift I wouldn't even had opened it.

I am a week away from Aruba. I might have changed my mind at the last minute and just kept my cash for the trip, but now I was tied to this fucking ipod.

I loved the ipod, but now whenever I looked at it I got pissed because I paid for something I didn't want.

The next day the wife calls me at work. She is much more calm now. Says I can return the ipod and get the 4 gig nano. (little does she know I had already called to see if it was returnable) She says that she looked at what we could afford and the 4 gig is about it.

I say fine. I originally wanted the nano, and only after I saw my brothers 30 gig video did I want that. I only wanted it because its 30 dollars more than the 4 gig nano and it holds 26 gig more.

So now I have the nano. I am a fan, but I think I should just tell people to get me gift certificates. I don't know anyone but me who has gift problems like me.