When one wife gave her husband the task of picking out their bedroom TV — she was thinking slim and chic. He was thinking IMAX.
“I left my husband in charge of picking the TV for our master bedroom because I was tired of making decisions,” Lauryn Windham Franks wrote in a TikTok video that’s racked up over 9.9 million views since July 22. “I was thinking more of a pretty frame TV.”
Instead, the Texas couple — who are currently doing renovations in their home — ended up with a 98-inch monster that could double as a drive-in theater.
“I truthfully didn’t care what he bought — just like he didn’t care what kind of furniture I bought,” she told Newsweek.
TikTok viewers had thoughts — and plenty of them.
“Not y’all having a Jumbotron in your primary bedroom,” one person cracked.
“Did he perhaps buy this from a Buffalo Wild Wings?” joked a commenter.
Others proudly defended his purchase. “There’s plenty of wall space left he could have taken up. He showed restraint.”
“Like sir, this is not a theater, people sleep here,” pointed out someone else.
But one user saw the long game: “Now he has doomed you to hosting family movie nights in your bedroom.”
And then there was the obvious lesson: “To be fair, you left a man unsupervised to purchase a tv.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time the internet’s been split over what happens when wives let husbands make home decisions.
Laura Marie thought she was sharing a lighthearted anecdote about her son’s and husband’s bachelor-style behavior while she was out of town — and instead sparked a digital donnybrook.
“I left my son at home with my husband for two days, and the first thing my son said to me when I came home was, ‘Can I have sheets on my bed again?’” she tweeted.
She followed up, noting, “THE CLEAN SHEETS WERE IN THE DRYER WHEN I LEFT!”
Cue the outrage. “This is one of those things you shouldn’t post about your husband on the internet. This is why men do not want to be married anymore,” one scolded.
Another wondered, “I almost don’t believe these stories!! Don’t men use bed sheets on them?!”
The original poster clapped back: “I handle laundry and my husband handles groceries. We share cooking and cleaning. And to be honest, I don’t know that my husband cares how clean his sheets are.”
And, for the record, she’s not exactly in a loveless household. “My husband and I are madly in love. We celebrate 20 years of marriage in August,” she wrote.
So whether it’s bedding or a behemoth flatscreen, the moral of the story seems clear: leave a man unsupervised in the home decor department, and you’d better be prepared to live with the results — in 4K.
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