THREE TIMES yesterday. THREE.
He called me on his break and in the course of the conversation, he told me that he thinks we should bring the laptop to Vegas. Buh, wut? Neither one of us has jobs that require us to be available while on holidays. There are no familial child births pending. We're not waiting for an auction to end on eBay. So why, pray tell, would we need to take a computer with us on vacation? There are internet cafes all over the place if we feel the need to look something up. Frankly, I'm looking forward to four days with no reason/excuse to check email and facebook and blogs and Twitter and message boards and and and.
Well, he might want to bring his MP3 player with him, and he'll need some way to charge it, duhhhhh. (Insert heavy eye-rolling here.)
Okay, let me get this straight. (In an order to save $30 ('cuz I'm cheap like that), we opted to only pay for one suitcase. The one we borrowed from my parents is too big, so we figured we'd take two carry on bags to give us a little extra space for any shopping we do.) You want to take up space in a carry on bag with a 20 lb laptop so you can charge your MP3 player? Seriously? Seriously. (His reply: "Well, it would be ridiculous to waste three hours in an internet cafe just so I can charge it... " No, what is "ridiculous" is taking the fucking thing at all! LEAVE IT AT HOME!!!)
I ended the conversation with a "There's not really a point in continuing this conversation right now, as we're both getting annoyed and not hearing each other."
He had a union meeting after work and called me when he was on his way home. We were talking about going to get travelers cheques and my mom's suggestion that we split them up so that they're not all in one person's name in case of an emergency. He suggested that perhaps we'll both be able to sign them initially so that either one of us can cash them. I relayed that I had never seen any double-signed travelers cheques (worked in retail for 100 years, so I've seen my share (including the bogus ones)), but said that things could have changed over the years and we'd ask at the bank.
Of course, I couldn't *just* leave it at that and had to elaborate, telling him that they would have to print cheques with four signature lines in order to accommodate a couple. He cut me off (he has SUCH a bad habit of doing this and it makes me count to ten every time it happens) to say that we wouldn't both have to sign them. I thought he meant when we purchase them, so I was in the process of explaining why we would both have to sign, when he cut me off (again) to parrot me with the good old "Well, there's not really a point in continuing this conversation... "
*fumes*
In an effort to change the subject, he started talking about which car to take. We had originally said we'd take his car because it has an alarm/immobilizer (the Mazda only has an immobilizer: we'll be installing an alarm, but not until after my birthday). Then, somewhere along the line, we said we'd take the Mazda: he felt that the alarm on the Sunfire wasn't really of any added benefit: if someone wants to bust a window, s/he probably isn't going to care about an alarm (that 99% of the population will ignore anyhow). Then we were back to the Sunfire. Then we were back to the Mazda (he has his front windows (illegally) tinted and we were concerned about trouble at the border, especially given the fact we don't have passports).
Are you still with me? Because I think I'm lost.
Last night? He says -- no irony here, people -- "Yeah, I think we'll take my car because it has the alarm. At least that might deter some people."
*head asplode*
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