I am convinced that women have some inbuilt psychic ability to detect when the least appropriate moment to interrupt or talk over the top of a TV programme is, and then to choose that moment to do just that – even if they’re not in the same physical locality as you. Case in point: whilst she was away visiting family in Ireland a few weeks ago, my dearly beloved managed to ring me in the middle of an interesting or entertaining programme nearly every time she called – never during Newsnight or anything like that, but always during The Smoking Room or Top Gear or something.
Of course, you can’t ask them to call back or talk after the programme has finished, because that means that you think the TV is more important than they are, and that’s obviously just Bad and Wrong, so you have to talk, but then you get into trouble for being grumpy with them or giving them short answers or not paying attention or something. There’s just no way you can win.
And now, I’m going to go and get into trouble for having written this, rather than talking to her.
And all this moaning after I commented on you being so sociable all evening whilst we girls talked over the TV… at least I *thought* you got to watch most of your programme and our comments were, for the most part, related to it.
No, all that written /before/ you’d said that. And I felt horribly guilty as a result.
What makes you think only women do this? I have the same problem with Dan. 🙂
Exactly, it’s not just women who do this. It’s just usually straight men who are annoyed by it.
*pats TiVo and it’s ‘pause live TV’ function.*
Sky Plus and live pause.
But
Worse than women are mothers. Who manage to ask a question just as the team has made a break for the tri line. And then accuses you of not loving her when you ssssh her.
Why do women get so angry when you ssssssh them while you are trying to watch some thing interesting?
And why do women have to constantly natter while you are trying to watch. Either watch or talk? not both.
sigh.
Why chat you ask? Because real people are infinitely more important and interesting than the TV. TV is only there to give us more things to comment on – it provokes us.