“Tony, you are not buying me a house.”
“Who said anything about buying you a house?”
Steve looked skeptically at the picture window on the card. “It’s you. You buy lavish gifts.”
“Well… I may have done that in the past but who says I’d be doing that now?”
“Because you can’t help yourself. You have to be the guy to get the best gift. You’ve got to outdo everyone else.” Steve said knowingly. “Remember the laptop you got me on my birthday two years ago?”
“It was what you asked for.”
Steve shook his head, “No. No it wasn’t. It was connected to a Cray mainframe. You got me a laptop and a mainframe that the Pentagon uses. I just wanted a laptop.”
“It made the laptop more efficient.” Tony justified.
“And hogged a lot of room in my quarters.” Steve replied.
“I told you I could have a-“
“A renovation to make the mainframe fit in my room was just too much.” Steve replied. “It was like the lady who swallowed the fly. You keep having to get more stuff to make these wildly impractical gifts work.”