Red Ring of Death

Husband called me at work yesterday.

He said, "Baby!  I got the red ring of death!"

I congratulated him while trying to feign excitement.  I said, "Oh, that's GREAT!"

Because the red ring of death sounded like a video game reward to me. 

Like the person who empties the most AK 47 clips into the opposition while playing Splinter Cell wins the red ring of death.

I should have known better.

Husband totally prefers to knife people in that game, not shoot automatic weapons!

Duh!

He kept talking about it like it was a bad thing.

I totally didn't get it. 

Turns out The Red Ring of Death means your xBox is dead, dead, dead.

Husband was in semi-mourning.

And I was congratulating him on it.