I want my XMR

I bought Ann a satellite radio for her birthday last week. She had gotten me one a couple of years back, and I really like it a lot, use it all the time. So when she expressed interest in having one of her own, I jumped at the chance to get her one. In addition to making her happy, though, I'm also hoping that having one of her own will put into context two behaviors I've observed over the last two years in relation to mine. Namely:

1) She turns the radio off when we're still a half mile from wherever we're going. Don't ask me why, but invariably we'll be pulling up to the road that leads to our neighborhood -- not even IN our neighborhood yet -- and she'll hit the power button, then put the radio back in the glove compartment. This is problematic because, woman, Jon Bon Jovi has not finished telling me what kind of horse he rides... what are you doing? But it never fails. Is she worried the music will distract me from the final stages of a route I've driven every day for the last 3 years, and we'll wind up in Scranton? It defies comprehension.

2) She turns the radio off, period. Much like a normal car radio, the way the satellite radio works is that when you turn off the car, it automatically powers down. Then, even if you remove the unit from the cradle to store in your glove compartment and then plug it back in later, it will automatically turn back on when you start the car. Nice, right? Right. Except even on those rare occasions when Ann lets us get all the way to our destination before cutting the music off, she'll still hit the power button before I can turn the car off. Why? Why not just let the radio shut down when I turn off the car so it will automatically start back up next time? Yes, you may very well be thinking "It's two steps, you lazy bitch... suck it up." My counterpoint is, it's two completely unnecessary steps. Why bother turning the radio off at all? You don't turn your regular radio off before you get out of the car, do you? (Please note, that's a rhetorical question. If you do, you're a freak and I don't want to hear about it.) It just doesn't make sense.

So there you have it. We're just going to monitor the situation for a little while and see if Ann continues this inexplicable behavior with her own satellite radio. Check back in for regular updates.