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dogstormer
06-02-2003, 06:29 PM
My GF keeps dropping my NX-60. She has used it three times and dropped it twice.

1) it was on her lap in the car. as she got out of the car it fell off her lap on the hard pavement
2) she was using it in class and accidently knocked it off her desk.

Thank god for the case

One more thing - she had it in her purse with some TWIX. The chocolate smudged all over the case.

I have revoked her CLIE priveledges, but it will only be a matter of time before she starts whining about needing it?

Is my CLIE more important to me than my GF? what should i dio

Tough decision. LOL

Anyone esle have any stories about there significant others not caring about their "toys"?
wonton
06-02-2003, 06:36 PM
Buy your gf her own clie.
yOyOYoo
06-02-2003, 06:40 PM
yes buy her a clie of her own so she can stop her whining and drop her own clie
akfreas
06-02-2003, 06:45 PM
Why does your GF need your clie? Does she keep her addresses on there? Or is it just for entertainment? If it is just for entertainment, why dont you buy her an SJ33 or a used nr70?
n0m0n
06-02-2003, 06:51 PM
Hey VERY important.
If you purchase your lady a Clie I would purchase a replacement plan for it also...
In fact I would purchase the longest period of time plan since she has such a drop and go personality.
:0
Dougf
06-02-2003, 06:56 PM
My friend, you have not trained her correctly. My girlfriend knows better then to even look at my toys the wrong way....I don't know where you and yours are from, but my GF loves her cutesy little fragile glass or wood little crafts moi hah hah hahhhh now let me go before she sees me writing this lol
Narniahopper
06-02-2003, 06:57 PM
My ex-GF always played Bejeweled on my NR70v. To this day, whenever I see her she has to play a few games of Bejeweled for old times sake.
evangel
06-02-2003, 07:03 PM
My wife thinks I'm nuts for the amount of time I spend using my NX-70V, and would never make me feel justified by asking me to use mine for anything! :)
St. Magnum
06-02-2003, 07:11 PM
I agree: Get her her own Clie. In fact, I have a very slightly used SJ33 for sale if you're interested...
Bionic Antboy
06-02-2003, 07:26 PM
I say she should buy her own. If she doesn't spend her own money on it, she'll just drop it in a vat of chocolate or something.

My GF plays Bejeweled on it every day, so I make HER buy the screen protectors now ... :)
dogstormer
06-02-2003, 07:28 PM
I think the easiest thing is getting her a PDA that she can abuse .... but I know she won't use it that much. I have had my CLIE for about three months and she only "touched" it twice.

The main reason she uses it is for the voice recording functionality at school. I could get her a voice recorder but they are so limited in terms of space ....
n2ifp
06-02-2003, 07:32 PM
Dump the girl friend, if she has no respect for your valuable and precious belongings, then she won't have respect for you either. I lived with someone for 23 years and all I ever heard was that my stuff was crap, to put it nicely! Anything that diverts attention away from the opposite sex, is automatically the enemy! Your freedom is everything :D!
FreefallX
06-02-2003, 07:57 PM
my gf bought me my NZ90 as a present
thinking
06-02-2003, 08:03 PM
Give the scratched, sticky old one and get yourself the newest thing going (that does has the features you want). I give my wife my older versions. Kinda helps justify the new purchase.
dogstormer
06-02-2003, 08:05 PM
i would love to buy a new PDA - but I got to save up for that @$@#@*& RING!!!
Shrink
06-02-2003, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by n2ifp
Dump the girl friend, if she has no respect for your valuable and precious belongings, then she won't have respect for you either. I lived with someone for 23 years and all I ever heard was that my stuff was crap, to put it nicely! Anything that diverts attention away from the opposite sex, is automatically the enemy! Your freedom is everything :D!

Don't be so shy Larry, tell us how you really feel:D
alan
sstrasser86
06-02-2003, 08:16 PM
DON"T BUY HER ONE!!!!! tell her to buy her OWN!!
Gravity
06-02-2003, 08:32 PM
"Herry, seconds count buddy, ditch the b*tch" ;)

there are 3 billion girls in this world, and your clie-abuser is only one of them. I side with n2ifp, find someone who will respect your belongings. If she treats your (expensive) belongings that way, what makes you think she will treat you any differently?
EvilErnie
06-02-2003, 09:09 PM
Give her your nx60.....



And demand that he buy you a Nx 80 for the trauma she has caused you!
leung
06-02-2003, 09:19 PM
sound like a woman driver :D
Unregistered
06-02-2003, 09:46 PM
guess we know why you're single, eh, n2ifp, lol.

i say all of you with gf's... dump them, live by yourself and establish real relationships with your electronics. much simplier that way, lol.
Dougf
06-02-2003, 09:51 PM
guess we know why you're single, eh, n2ifp, lol.

i say all of you with gf's... dump them, live by yourself and establish real relationships with your electronics. much simplier that way, lol.

LOL, I say if you have a girlfriend, sometimes that option seems VERY tempting....unfortunately nobody has invented some of those great accessories women have for our electronics.....if someone ever does, he will be a very rick man :)
Tantric
06-02-2003, 10:37 PM
My woman does not touch ANY of my stuff.

She knows her role. Give a woman what she really wants (and it varies from specimen to specimen) and you will have no problem putting her in her place.

Oh, I gave up sexism. The b!tches HATE when I act like that.
Ezikial Anta
06-02-2003, 10:41 PM
Haha... make her buy her own- then she wont like em as much... noone bought my NX60 for me... so it is worth all the work i did for it, but if i got it as a pressent i wouldnt use it half as much
AlbertLu
06-02-2003, 10:48 PM
Have you consider perhaps she drop it on purpose? Because you have been having too much fun with your PDA, instead of her? ;)
yawn
06-02-2003, 11:50 PM
She knows her role. Give a woman what she really wants (and it varies from specimen to specimen) and you will have no problem putting her in her place.

I am sure we can figure out the type of specimens you attract :).
Unregistered
06-02-2003, 11:51 PM
it's so funny readin all of these posts .... i gonna try to take a pic of NX so you guys can see the damage that it has absorbed.
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 03:01 AM
http://www.drphil.com
muldermx
06-03-2003, 04:15 AM
my wife ruined my old t615c's screen playing bejewled - and after i put screen ptotetors she ruined those too. so now she told me herself she wont get near the NX70V
its
MINE MINE MINE!!!!!!!!
First the NX70V then ze whole vourld!!!!!! HAHAHAAHA
n2ifp
06-03-2003, 04:24 AM
Remember the 3 rings of marriage, there is the Engagement Ring, The Wedding Ring, and the Suffering!

"Love is grand, Divorce is 100 Grand"

In my case, I kept the house and only got 10 grand :D!
muldermx
06-03-2003, 04:28 AM
heheheheheh
*YellowRose*
06-03-2003, 07:12 AM
Originally posted by Tantric
My woman does not touch ANY of my stuff.

She knows her role. Give a woman what she really wants (and it varies from specimen to specimen) and you will have no problem putting her in her place.

Oh, I gave up sexism. The b!tches HATE when I act like that. Geez tantric . . . your club is dragging the ground, you better pick it up before it gets dirty.

I think this boils down to a geek/non-geek thing. I'm the 'house geek' and nobody touches the computer settings or the PDAs that don't belong to them . . . Of course, handmedown PDAs ARE a wonderful thing . . . the sig other got my N760 when I 'moved up', my 16 yo has the Prism & my dad got the IIIxe . . . I HAVE to get a new PDA soon, my 7 yo wants one to use . . . lol!

It's mine, all mine I tell you, and YOU CAN'T TOUCH IT!!!!
pusfarm
06-03-2003, 07:34 AM
If she can't carefully handle something that costs around $500, how does she expect you to invest around 10x that amount on a ring for her?  I'd call that the litmus test and she FAILED (or whatever the bad result of a litmus test is).;)

My recently-ex-GF left the 665 I bought for her in the front seat of her car when she valet parked recently.  Any surprise that it was gone when she came back?!  We broke up the next morning [but not because of the 665... LOL], though I did give her my old 665 so she could use her data, pathetic sap that I am.

She gets sworn in as an attorney later today - and she better remember my kindness when she starts making the big bucks!!!:D
cass_m
06-03-2003, 07:35 AM
I'm with Yellow Rose - it is geek vs. non-geek thing.

Get a strap or something similarand make her use it when she borrows your clie. You could try holding something of hers hostage if you feel the need:D
sonyslave
06-03-2003, 07:35 AM
New NX60 -$300

New girlfriend -Free.

Seems like an episode of Seinfield.

to bad -it's never really "free".
pusfarm
06-03-2003, 07:38 AM
Originally posted by cass_m
Get a strap or something similarand make her use it when she borrows your clie. Ahhhhh, the reason behind the included Clie strap.  Women! :)
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 08:02 AM
Looks like a good rule of thumb for all the women out there - if he owns a Clie, steer clear.
Bill Veik
06-03-2003, 08:40 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, women.....can't live with 'em, can't herd 'em all into Canada.


Ahhhhhhhhhh, men.....can't live with 'em, too much work sealin' up the cave that they live in.....

See, we ARE all the same-incorrigible!!!
MaryJoS
06-03-2003, 09:03 AM
Originally posted by Unregistered
Looks like a good rule of thumb for all the women out there - if he owns a Clie, steer clear.

LOL, after reading this thread, I am inclined to agree! Anyone that values a PDA more than me would not be someone I would share my life with!
Bionic Antboy
06-03-2003, 09:11 AM
Originally posted by Bill Veik
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, women.....can't live with 'em, can't herd 'em all into Canada.

Feel free to "herd" them up here.  The more the merrier I say.
Gadgeteer_7
06-03-2003, 09:34 AM
I bought my wife one and she loves it. When we beam each other we call it clie-sex. WOW. lol.

I love technology
vansouza
06-03-2003, 09:44 AM
I had a GF like that years ago... kept on screwing up my stereo system, which was very complex, back then. But I mean always... then I found out she hated that I spent so much time with it... now both are gone...but she left first... lol
ShellyBelly
06-03-2003, 10:01 AM
Originally posted by *YellowRose*
Geez tantric . . . your club is dragging the ground, you better pick it up before it gets dirty.

I think this boils down to a geek/non-geek thing. I'm the 'house geek' and nobody touches the computer settings or the PDAs that don't belong to them . . . Of course, handmedown PDAs ARE a wonderful thing . . . the sig other got my N760 when I 'moved up', my 16 yo has the Prism & my dad got the IIIxe . . . I HAVE to get a new PDA soon, my 7 yo wants one to use . . . lol!

It's mine, all mine I tell you, and YOU CAN'T TOUCH IT!!!!


Ditto:)

I am the geek here, but I do have a harder time as my hubby won't use a Clie, except to get into mine and mess it all up (he does this to the PC too:() so justifying new ones is a problem for me.

I do have a T615 that my 7yr old uses, an extra T615 for me for programs that refuse to run on the NX70 and a N610 that my 5 and 2 yr olds share.

BTW for the GF with the clutzy fingers and for all of you others that would dump a great girl for touching your prized posession (and I DO understand the anxiety and how the heart starts pumping when they even look like they are going to touch your Clie) try this, I just bought one and have high hopes for it:

http://www.armorbyotter.com/palm.cfm
pruss
06-03-2003, 10:05 AM
You sure she wouldn't prefer an engagement PDA instead of an engagement ring? :-)
jklfafa
06-03-2003, 10:09 AM
women and electronics.....butterfingered girls i kinda restrict sometimes...but thats why theres a strap eh?
i hate it when other ppl grab my pda out of its aluminum case, mite scratch it, thats why my clie is my girlfriend....at least she wont hurt herself
CopyCat
06-03-2003, 10:42 AM
I have not read most of the replies but I have a GF that likes to use it also.

I simply stress that the CLIE costs 4 times more than the amount in my bank account and that if broken I would probably cry in public:p
I don't think its to much to bug her A LOT about how dropping it is not acceptable, its not a casio digital date planner its a very expensive piece of equipment.
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 10:51 AM
"thats why my clie is my girlfriend"

Sounds like that is the case with most of the men who spend a lot of time here :).

can you say _ _ _ _ _, oh nevermind.
gyffes
06-03-2003, 11:25 AM
Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.
Gravity
06-03-2003, 11:37 AM
buy your GF a zire, show her how much she is really worth :p
Cert
06-03-2003, 11:38 AM
Originally posted by gyffes
Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.

You must NOT be married. Not to get off on this, but why does the "world" think marriage is a trajedy?
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 11:41 AM
Not the world, just the losers.
Bionic Antboy
06-03-2003, 11:46 AM
I think Cert and Unregistered may be taking the marriage jokes too seriously. :)
gyffes
06-03-2003, 11:55 AM
Ecktually, I'm incredibly happily married.

Now.

I wasn't, at one time. And that was agony.

B'sides, the comment was in jest, piling onto all the other (mostly) humorous misogynistic comments being posted here.

For the record, my wife doesn't understand my love of tech/toys, but supports my right to buy myself what I want (provided bills are paid, etc) -- she even gave me an iPod for xmas last year.


Now That's a helluva woman!
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 12:07 PM
Some here have no appreciation for school boy humor.
dogstormer
06-03-2003, 12:11 PM
The money that I use to buy a PDA for her is coming out of the ring fund!!!!
Griff
06-03-2003, 12:14 PM
Not sure why you'd even consider marrying someone who has proven she has no respect for your things. Do you think it'll get any better after you buy the ring?
ChuToy
06-03-2003, 01:08 PM
Egads, she WHINES and drops your expensive personal property?!!! I'm a wife, and even from the feminine perspective or at least MY version of the feminine perspective, that just would send me running for the nearest exit. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to hear someone whine to use something or do something after abusing the privilege.

I say let her whine. The revocation of Clie privileges should be permanent, unless she grows up and demonstrates some respect for your property. If she whines and whines and whines, think about if that is the sound you want to hear the rest of your life. Everybody whines. But some folks don't know when to turn it off.
ChuToy
06-03-2003, 01:14 PM
p.s...doesn't she have any money of her own? Why do you have to buy her a ring AND a pda? Gads! I hope she is reciprocating the generosity and that she has a lot of stellar qualities we're not seeing from your one brief post. LOL!
dogstormer
06-03-2003, 01:18 PM
its not that she has no respect for my things .... she is very careless about her things also.


You should see how many dings she has on her car ....

Thank-god for insurance!!
dogstormer
06-03-2003, 01:21 PM
she has many qualities that I truly love. I guess nobody is perfect, you take the good with the bad. What can you do =(
Unregistered
06-03-2003, 01:23 PM
I agree, the two of you sound way too immature to think about getting married.
wellsjs
06-03-2003, 06:22 PM
Originally posted by dogstormer
i would love to buy a new PDA - but I got to save up for that @$@#@*& RING!!! With her attitude toward your Clie and your attitude toward a ring for her, flee for your life! ;) You'll save yourself a lot of heartache and money. :D
ChuToy
06-03-2003, 06:35 PM
LOL! I figured that was the case (that she's a winner in person & better than what we're all making her out to be). But you know geeks have to rant about our stuff and the people who ding them. VBG!

Okay confession time--you ought to see what my poor cell phone has been through.

Congratulations on the girl and best wishes on the big day she gets THE ring. (Get her a durable one...wink wink!)
PDA gadgetfreak
06-03-2003, 07:34 PM
Would you let her drive your car if she kept bringing it back with parking dents in it.....opppps honey it was an accident! Just kidding you.

I'm lucky and my wife has no fascination for my gadgets. She knows they're fun and useful for me and lets me play with them all I want. Her eyes do glaze over though when I mention new models of Clies are out and we should go to Best Buy:D
BettyE
06-03-2003, 07:45 PM
At first, I was going to tell you to ditch her but, as I read the posts, I realized you are serious about her. As someone who has been thru a divorce (now happily married for 18 years), please think twice about living with her lack of taking care of her things for the rest of your life.

If you still believe you want to marry her, then teach her to use the strap. If she lays the PDA down, like on a desk, then tie the strap to something. That is what I do.