Spousal Conversion Kit
Posted by Eric on April 9, 2008
I got an email today, ‘ how to convince your spouse to buy a boat’ … it was a conversion kit with some script on how to bring up the topic to your spouse, kind of like ‘how to tell your spouse you have AIDS’ but it was ‘how to tell your spouse you want a boat’ Here is a sample script provided:
Hi Honey.Let’s play a game. I’ll call it “I say. You say.”
I say, “Let’s buy a boat.” You say, “We can’t afford it.”
I say “Yes we can.” You say “How?”
I say “We can get a boat for about $200 a month. That’s less than we would spend to take the kids to the ball park for just one game—in other words we can get a month of boating for less than a single day at the old ball game! “
You say, “Where would we go boating?”I say ” There are more places to go boating than you realize—I’ve read that 90% of the country lives within an hour of great boating—and since we don’t live in the desert, chances are good we’re part of that 90 percent.
“You say, “Well, we don’t have time for a boat.”I say, “Yes we do.”
You say, “Really…”I say, “Of course we do! We don’t need a LOT of time—just a free day. And with a boat we can getaway whenever we want—it frees up our free time. Think of it, with a boat we could take a mini-vacation every weekend.
You say ” What about the kids?”I say, “It’ll be good for the kids. Imagine making a connection with the kids that doesn’t require Bluetooth!They can swim or fish…”You say “But I don’t like to fish!”I say, “You don’t have to fish. There’s way more ways than fishing to have fun on a boat—there’s swimming, tubing, wakeboarding, waterskiing, cruising, hanging out with friends, relaxing and enjoying the great outdoors, tanning on deck, even romantic sunset cruises….
You say, “Let’s buy a boat.” I say ” Okay!!!”Wasn’t that fun!
