{"id":387,"date":"2010-04-07T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstpersonobserver.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-06-12T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:53:14","slug":"sims-huge-spacious-dream-home-detrimentally-huge-spacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/firstpersonobserver\/lifestyle\/sims-huge-spacious-dream-home-detrimentally-huge-spacious\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim&#8217;s Huge, Spacious Home Detrimentally Huge, Spacious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/simsmansion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1711 aligncenter\" title=\"simsmansion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/simsmansion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/simsmansion.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/simsmansion-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunset Valley &#8212; <\/strong>Sim Citizen Stiles McGraw, after saving for years to afford his huge, cavernous dream home, was dismayed to discover that his new house is so vast and spacious that it&#8217;s destroying his lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m miserable,&#8221; he said through an interpreter. &#8220;By the time I get out of bed in the morning, walk to the kitchen to eat, then walk to the bathroom to wash up, half the day is gone. I missed work yesterday because I wanted to paint on my easel on the deck, and by the time I got out there it was already noon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week, I was swimming in the pool, and got tired. The bedroom is so far away I only made it halfway there before collapsing to the floor and falling asleep in the foyer. This house is just way too big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGraw, who worked his way up from a lowly coffee courier to vice president at Sunset Valley&#8217;s Office Building, spent years saving his hard-earned Simoleans, dreaming of someday buying a mansion on beautiful Summerhill Court. &#8220;I had it all planned out. It would be two stories, nice car in the driveway, hot-tub out back, telescope on the balcony, see-through walls and roof&#8230; it was going to be heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the reality turned out much differently. &#8220;My bedroom is upstairs, and getting down to the kitchen in the morning seems to take forever. Then, I have to prepare an elaborate meal, walk it over to the dining room table, put it down, turn, pull out my chair, sit down, and eat. After that, I&#8217;m clearing the dishes, washing them, then it&#8217;s off to the bathroom. It&#8217;s, like, mid-afternoon by that point. I&#8217;m so frustrated I just want to yell and wave my arms at the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, there are things I want to have time to do with my life. I bought a new painting for the den, and I haven&#8217;t even found time to walk over, look at it, and start applauding. If I want to use my computer to play some games while giggling and hooting, I have to carve out an entire afternoon just to get to my desk. I think I was better off sharing a much smaller house with four roommates on Sunnyside Boulevard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGraw is finding that his spacious new mansion is affecting his social life as well. &#8220;I met this cute policewoman one night after someone attempted to rob my mansion. I chatted with her, and called her the next day. She came over, and we talked about how we both liked sailboats and didn&#8217;t like tennis rackets. We flirted a bit, I gave her a massage, we kissed a little. I thought, wow, this could definitely lead to some WooHoo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He paused, sadly. &#8220;But it took so long to get her upstairs to my bedroom, that by the time we got to the bed she had to go to the bathroom. When she finally got done, I was hungry, and while I was headed to the kitchen to make some food, she went out to dance to music on the deck. Hours later, I finally got her back upstairs, but she was tired and wanted to leave, and I needed to use the bathroom so badly I urinated on the floor. It kind of killed the mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does McGraw plan to do now that his house hasn&#8217;t lived up to his expectations? &#8220;I&#8217;d like to sell it, honestly,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;I&#8217;m just not sure who would want it. Showing it to a prospective buyer would take all day, and they might get turned off by how huge and inconvenient it is. All the pee stains on the floor aren&#8217;t going to help, either. For now, I guess I&#8217;m stuck here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sim Citizen Stiles McGraw, after saving for years to afford his huge, cavernous dream home, was dismayed to discover that his new house is so vast and spacious that it&#8217;s destroying his lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[741],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-sims-series","section-firstpersonobserver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}