Those who have a wife or husband.

Coach Pre

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28 Sep 03

Coach Pre

Asheville, N.C. USA

Joined: 03 Sep 03
Moves: 28378

28 Sep 03

Is your spouse driving you crazy and nagging about the time you try to spend playing chess?

StarValleyWy

BentnevolentDictater

x10,y45,z-88,t3.1415

Joined: 26 Jan 03
Moves: 1644

28 Sep 03

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Originally posted by Coach Pre
Is your spouse driving you crazy and nagging about the time you try to spend playing chess?

She would be if I hadn't made a deal. I told her i wouldn't play any more chess for a year. I didn't say anything about the forums though!😛 Just kidding! She is much too busy with her life to notice my time "spent" on RHP.

As an aside... I always walk away, as in "Look" away from the computer "immediately" if a human enters the room. I decided years ago that any and all human beings "outrank" the computer. By doing this... always looking the person in the eye and saying "Hi. What you up to?"... I have managed to avoid "Computer Overload". Just make up your mind as to what is more important... a chess move or your real life. It's not rocket science. Walk away from the computer and tell a story to a kid. It might be something you remember years from now. I guarantee you will not remember any particular chess move or game in the years you have remaining.

Hoping we all can be a little less obsessed and a little more caring to "real things" like "people".

Mike

Cap10

Head Psycho

over here...or there

Joined: 20 Dec 02
Moves: 5089

28 Sep 03

My wife howls once-in-a-while, but no worse than when I spend too much time hunting. 😀 I have 5 year old twins. They like to watch me play chess. When I know where the person I'm playing is from, we look that place up on a map.

Omnislash

Digital Blasphemy

Omnipresent

Joined: 16 Feb 03
Moves: 21533

28 Sep 03

No, but that has a lot to do with that I do all of my online stuff at work. On the subject of spending time with the spouse though, all I can say is that it is a fine line we walk indeed. 😉

huntingbear

Joined: 29 Jun 03
Moves: 3535

28 Sep 03

My wife doesn't nag at me, but I do get the occasional growl. I only get in real trouble if I try to tell her about chess. By the way, the growl thing isn't a bear joke either: she really growls if I'm too long at chess!

Paulie

Joined: 23 Feb 03
Moves: 83654

28 Sep 03

Originally posted by Coach Pre
Is your spouse driving you crazy and nagging about the time you try to spend playing chess?

😀 Nope 😀 she loves me 😀

Jarede88

North Carolina

Joined: 10 Sep 03
Moves: 4264

28 Sep 03

i know its diffrent but my parents do. man they hassel me. i guess it dosent help that im lazy too.😏

kirksey957

Outkast

With White Women

Joined: 31 Jul 01
Moves: 91452

28 Sep 03

I took some heat for it, but then I reminded her about how much time she looks at catalogs looking for crap to buy or looking at Oprah learning about how bad men are. Oh yea, I didn't cut the grass but one time this summer. She did it. That's right. And I'm about to throw Oprah out. One must not let these things get out of hand. 😠

royalchicken

CHAOS GHOST!!!

Elsewhere

Joined: 29 Nov 02
Moves: 17317

28 Sep 03

Originally posted by kirksey957
I took some heat for it, but then I reminded her about how much time she looks at catalogs looking for crap to buy or looking at Oprah learning about how bad men are. Oh yea, I didn't cut the grass but one time this summer. She did it. That's right. And I'm about to throw Oprah out. One must not let these things get out of hand. 😠

Oprah Winfrey ---> Pay for Whiner.

I tried to use 'Harpy', but the remainder was none too good....'fine row'...

shougi

the misteke makor

heading home

Joined: 08 Dec 01
Moves: 32682

29 Sep 03

the secret is to get an even worse hobby like gambling and then negotiate. After you've wasted a few hundred bucks on the horses, your spouse/parents will be happy to have you give it up and return to spending your time on a harmless pursuit like chess.