I have a problem. My mother will be visiting me in a couple of weeks. She lives in Florida and hasn't visited me here in Boston in about 8 years (I usually go to her). The last time she was here, I had a 27" TV, no surround sound, and moderate sized movie collection. Since then, I now have a 6-foot wide DLP projection screen, speakers all over the room, and a library of hundreds of movies cluttering up the place.

She has no idea.

It's not that I've lied to her. I've just never mentioned it to her because, frankly, it isn't the sort of thing that interests her or that she would care for, and I didn't want to listen to the inevitable lectures about how I'm wasting my money on frivolous things when I could be spending it on her instead (yeah, she's a peach).

But now she's coming. Worse, the room she'll be staying in is the HT room! So there's no way to hide it. I fear that she'll realize how many multiple thousands of dollars I've sunk into this hobby and be appalled. I expect that I'll never hear the end of it.

What's a fella to do?

Are you over 21 and considered an adult? Then it should be no big shock to her. Do you also smoke crack, buy whores and have a methlab in your tub? No? Then I think a HT is far from a bad investment. Just tell her to pop into this forum and she will see that it's getting to be a very normal thing...to have a dedicated HT.

Make sure you take her out to a nice dinner and a few nights on the town....maybe that will soften the blow.

While she's there...hell, all the time....make sure she knows Mom is #1....movies and big fat screen...a distant second. Unless there's another lady in your life. Then it's a distant third.

Put her in a nursing home.


Seriously though, just let her see it. If she doesn't like it...well she only visits once every 8 years anyway. Besides, you never know, seeing Steel Magnolias in 60" Widescreen with Dolby 5.1 might convert her.

Tell her that it's not yours. Since you're a reviewer, all the stuff came with the job.

Well, I'll bring a shovel and Groucho can bring the arsenic.

Uh, or you could tell her that you work, and you like to spend some money on yourself, and you're sorry if she doesn't like it but tough cookies.

-JP

6 foot wide? That would be the equivalent of an 83" TV. You really have an 83" DLP?



Stew


PS. Grow some balls.

hang up sheets covering everything...put plastic down...get some paint..tell her you're painting..and hope she doesn't snoop

its DLP front projection, stew. i have a 16x9 screen that measures 96"x54" and 110" diagonal.

let her watch some movies and get her into it

Nice pic, but you had to get the floor in the shot, and you cut off the top of the screen. What kind of photographer are you????

An even better question for cygnet would be, who did your decorating?

As for wfujosh, grow some balls! You might want to hide your blanky instead.

i don't like black bars... so i framed it out. actually, i'm pretty sure my mom took that picture when she came to visit last december.

Oh well hey...totally understood. My mom can't take pictures worth shit either. Except her problem is on the horizontal plane.

I took a photography class back in the 8th Grade and I still remember most everything about composition from that class. (I'm 31 now.)

Buy her favorite movie and watch it!

She will love the HT

31 and afraid of your mom?

*cough*

Even worse, are those VHS tapes on the table?! wtf??

I think the OP should watch this movie:

Are you single? If so, then you sleep in the theater room and offer her your bed because "its more comfortable". Maybe she won't even venture into the theater room.

Pink couches? I like them, but are they manly? LOL

Really though I like when people have things. I know some people drink or smoke or snort all of their money, but what do the others do with it? Take for instance, my 39 yr old sister. She lives in a house essentially for free (she's supposedly buying it from my mom, but never pays her anything, like $50 a year). She gets food stamps, so she doesn't have to pay for groceries. She doesn't have a real heating system, so all her money is not going to that. She doesn't take her dogs to the vet. Where is all of her money going? She doesn't have any new furniture. Her vcr is 10 yrs. old. I just don't get it.

Now my younger sister has a fish tank, trees, a new dining room set & a couple of tvs, dvd players & vcrs.

BTW - My dad would love the setup. He wanted to order something like that, but doesn't have the dough.

Psycho might be a nice choice.

Er, just paint the TV screen a la Pollack. Instant art. She's never the wiser. Damn, I'm smart.

Well, if you don't want her to see it you can always send all that stuff to me for "safe keeping".

But should your answer be "Screw you"...then i suggest buck up and take some heat for it.

This is a joke thread, right? Please tell me this is a joke thread.