THOSE Magazines

I was listening to a segment on the radio called the Man Segment and it reminded me of something that happened early in my relationship with my wife. We were thinking of getting married and talking about regularly. We were in (at that time) my bedroom and talking about how things would change. She stated something about how she felt kind of uncomfortable about having “those” types of magazines in the house and pointed to my closet. I looked at her with a puzzled look and said, “What’s wrong with those?” She said, “Nothing that I care about, but my dad might not like them.” I looked at her with this face of astonishment and said, “What does he have against those magazines?” She then looked at me and said, “He’s very religious and he might not like them.” I then asked her, “What kind of magazines do you think those are?” She looked at me and said, “Honey, I think its okay if you have Playboy, but my dad might not like it.” I was FLOORED! I then started laughing hysterically. She didn’t get it right away so I said, “Those are GAME magazines!” (GameInformer, OXM and Xbox Nation) We didn’t stop laughing for a good hour. The rest of the week I would go around the house and point at things like soap and toothbrushes and ask her if those were okay.