He knows he can’t bring the PS5 to the ER, that’s the whole point. This is just a variation of weaponized incompetence, he succeeded in frustrating her to the point she gave up and went to the hospital alone, as he intended.

The same dude who can’t look after himself for one night while his wife cares for her daughter and grandchild is gonna get it together to file for divorce? Call his bluff, it’s the way the threat makes her feel that matters to him.

Em dashes are prevalent in professional writing and LLMs were largely trained on stolen professional writing, therefore LLMs use em dashes. In the name of God, stop talking like Skynet has its own house style.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons