Lol, this reminds me of the one and only time I ever got my hubby to give the sims a go. He dived straight in to a household and managed to break a dishwasher. He had asked me not to stand over him giving him advice, so I watched from a distance while he got his sim to attempt a repair. Sure enough, he got electrocuted (the sim, not my husband lol). Then he made the mistake of trying again straight away...
After his sim died, and I had finished laughing at him, he told me 'this game is plum', closed it down and has never played it since :p
He did get an awful lot of enjoyment, though, out of watching Laura Ingalls get squished by a meteorite and hearing my traumatised cries :D