Andrew: Kiss me.
Me: Hmm, no, I don’t think I’d better.
Andrew: Why not?
Me: I might turn into a geek.[1]
Andrew: You’re already a geek.
Me: Yes, but I wasn’t before I knew you.
Andrew: Oh, come on, you were a Trekkie and you played D&D!
Me: Well, yes, but I didn’t know I was a geek until after I met you.[2] Hey, I’m sure there must be cool people who like Star Trek and play D&D. [pause for dramatic effect] Well, okay, so there aren’t, but that doesn’t mean they all know they’re geeks…
Yes, this was a real conversation, and it’s pretty close to ver batim. I did eventually give him a kiss, though. Gave him more than one, in fact.
[1]This is in reference to the kissing of frogs. He got the reference because he almost always gets my references after all these years.
[2]That’s actually true. My true nature had not yet been realised. I really didn’t realise just how very geek-nerdy I was until I was thirty or so, but it didn’t have all that much to do with Andrew. More with the fact that I got a job at an ISP working as a support tech…
