Great excitement
Today, my ever-loving Techno Scouse staggered out of work with her sparkly new Alienware laptop. Ever since I have known TS, Alienware has been equated with the Holy Grail filled with a combination of the elixer of eternal youth and a cure for the common cold. She has now got one, courtesy of her extremely generous company bonus scheme so life is good.
What was strange, however, was the thing she was actually excited about. On the way home, she turned to me, with big wide-eyed joy and said “Guess what’s happening a week on Thursday?”
Now, obviously I did the usual bloke thing and went through the possible dates I had forgotten. Too early in the year for our anniversary or TS’ birthday… I’m the one sorting out the purchase of the flat, so nothing to do with that. It’s a bloody good job we didn’t play the guessing game, as it would have taken a long time to work it out.
This great highlight, worth 10 days’ anticipation was… Crimewatch is on.
Well, I was overwhelmed.
For anyone not familiar with the programme, Crimewatch is on once a month and features reconstructions and appeals to try and solve various crimes from around the country. I can imagine that each and every one of you is already planning ahead to 9pm next thursday night now!
TS loves the programme. I’m not entirely sure why, if I’m honest. She is often slightly less than enthusiastic about my line of work, so it’s not like she has a massive love for crime. The obvious suggestion, which I no longer suggest in any seriousness, is that she is just keen on catching up with what her friends from Widnes are up to.
Never make suggestions that your lovely scouse fiance knows lots of criminals. Even more importantly, never insinuate that her family are crooks either. It hurts.
For the record, we have never watched Crimewatch and seen a member of TS’ family. She has never looked at CCTV footage of the robbery of a jewellery store 10 miles away from where her family lives. In this non-existant CCTV material, the crook did not look anything like one of her cousins. The perpetretor did not then get away on a motorbike. TS’ cousin does not have a motorbike.
I do hope we have avoided any unfortunate misunderstanding there.
I still don’t get why we have got Crimewatch on the calender. What REALLY confuses me, is why she seemed so much more excited about it than the Alienware. I am sure this will change very soon though, especially when we have perfect graphics for Final Fantasy.
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Well, she is a woman which therefore makes her more complicated than determining the exact value of pi. (I am pretty sure you use pi over there in mathematical calculations). Oh, and she’s a tarutaru.