Alyse Baddley of Logan, Utah, doesn’t have anything against video games. After all, she was up ’til midnight with husband Kyle Baddley to buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the day of its release. But when her 22-year-old war vet hubbie spent a whole day playing the thing, she decided to put her foot down and do what any sensible, caring wife would do: She put her husband up for sale.
“I didn’t see him much at all,” she told Logan’s Herald Journal. “So one day I told him: ‘I am going to post you on Craigslist, you know.” And so, egged on by her mother-in-law, she did.
The ad stressed Kyle’s good points, saying that he was “easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours.” Which, as a somewhat sedentary husband myself, feels just about right. And Alyse says she even received a handful of offers for Kyle, including a “blue bag of Skittles.”
The ad, the couple says, was all in good fun (though I do sorta wonder what might’ve happened if someone had offered two bags). Kyle polished off the game in a few days, which means he now has gobs of time to spend with Alyse.
But the story does point to some interesting issues. Sure, video games can be fun. But can they be too fun?
Over the next two days, the Plugged In blog is going to be doing something a little different: Our own illustrious reviewers Bob Hoose and Adam Holz will discuss a few of video gaming plusses and minuses as only they can. As a guy who mashes the proverbial buttons now and then, I can’t wait to read what they have to say.
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