Wife of Gamer Posts Husband for Sale on craigslist

Today, as you may be aware, is Thanksgiving in America (and it’s also my birthday, so I eagerly await all your presents). As such, today is a day to finally stop whining about what you don’t have and be thankful for what you do.

In that spirit, I bring to you today a story about a frustrated wife who decided to place an ad on craigslist, posting her husband for sale. You see, Alysse Baddley was looking for a way to snap her military veteran husband, Kyle, out of his Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 induced haze. To do so, she, with the help of her mother-in-law, drafted an ad that did little to sing his praises:

“I am selling my 22 year old husband. He Enjoys eating and playing video games all day. Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours. You must have Internet and space for gaming. Got tired of waiting so free to good home. If acceptable replacement is offered will trade.”

Tons of responses poured in, said Alyse. “We didn’t think we would get any responses at all, but we’ve gotten so many. Someone even offered a blue bag of Skittles.”

But, instead of going for that awesome bag of Skittles, Alyse instead used the ad as a lesson to her inattentive husband, who seems to have offered a pretty lame excuse for his recent bout of wife-neglect:

“”I love my wife. She supported me when I got the game. We stayed until midnight to get the game when it first came out. It’s just funny.”

You know what’s not funny, Kyle? Getting traded for a bagful of the shittiest kind of shitty candy there is. Everyone knows green Skittles are way better—and Skittles in general are pretty awful (and I’ve got a mouthful of fillings to prove it).

Anyway, Kyle and his wife say that it was all in good fun, and that he’s backed off of his gaming. Hopefully he’s learned his lesson.

So what’s my point? Be thankful for what you have, gamers. If you have a beautiful wife, husband, family, friends, Master Chief costume, or gerbil, make sure you’re grateful for what you’ve got this holiday. Don’t get too swept up in the games, even if it’s easy to get sucked in. Just make sure to turn the thing off once in a while and take a look at meatspace. You may like what you see.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Now if you’ll excuse me, Imma go get my eat on.

Via Yahoo! Plugged In

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