My wife is afraid of our house...?

Question

I like many other men am a techno junkie, if it's a gadget i have got it. Well when we bought our house i probably went a bit over board. I just looked at it as another chance to have a bunch of cool gadgets.

Let me explain, when my wife comes home she gets about 50 feet from the garage door and it will recognize her car, and automatically open. Once she is inside it will automatically close behind her and turn the garage lights on. Once she gets out of the car the door to the house will automatically open and when she walks through it the lights turn on in the house and she is greeted by a cheery voice welcoming her home by name.

The house will then set the heating/cooling temperature to her comfort levels (it recognizes me too and adjusts appropriately. As she enters and exits rooms the lights will turn themselves on and off so she doesn't have to bother with light switches and the t.v. will turn itself on and tune to whatever her favorite channel for that time of day and day of week.

She doesn't have to vaccum, or clean the floors and i don't have to mow the lawn, i have robots to do that. The blinds and window shades will open and close on voice command. In fact there is a great deal of voice commands she can give the house depending on what she needs. "House playlist whatever" and it will start playing her music. You can tell my house to do just about anything you could imagine a house being capable of doing on it's own.

My wife says it's creepy, and is a bit afraid to come home. I don't understand this as to me it's just one cool house, and im always looking for something else to have it do on it's own.

Can anyone explain why she is afraid of the house?

Answer 1

ha ha! i wanna come over and see that! i was thinking how could she be afraid, but after reading it all, i think i would be a bit scared too! what if something went wrong, and all the robots went crazy, and the voice thingy was talking all crazy, and doors opening and closing! ****,  id run forever!

Answer 2

Alright, let me try to get this right...

you have a house that recognizes the car, opens doors, cleans, mows the lawn.....

what happens if there is a tech problem and you guys have to get out and the house wont let you? there are too many things that can go horribly wrong. Now i admit that's alot of cool stuff, but did you talk to your wife about the gadgets before you bought them?? Marriage is about compromise. To make her happy you might have to give up a few gadgets. I'm not saying all of them but the robot lawnmowers are what id be afraid of. i mean i can just see one chasing off a neighboor or something.

and serious question. you said the temp changes when she walks in the room to her preferd setting.... what happens when your both in the room??

well just talk to her and come up with a list of gadgets and the ones that worry her the most should be taken off. talk to her about it.

Answer 3

perhaps she is freaked out because the house seems "alive" to her.