I went to DragonCon with a couple of people from the usenet group Alt.Vampyres. Not to worry; we were good friends who had actually met a few times and hit it off. We were meeting up with more folks from Alt.Vampyres.
We arrived at the Hilton a day early, so had to find someone to room with till the person with the Alt.Vampyres reservation showed up the next day. We found a note on one of the kiosks and went up to that room. The guy inside was fairly harmless. His name was Abdul (no, I'm not kidding about that).
And he related to us the reason he needed roommates at that time. You see, he was going to meet with his "girlfriend", who he met online. They had exchanged photos, and emails. But they never talked on the phone.
As it turned out, the person he fell in love with showed up at the hotel, and introduced himself. Yes, himself. He was an overweight, hairy Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force type. Gay. And he had his ass roundly kicked (according to Abdul) for being a guy and lying to poor Abdul.
No matter. We had a room for the night, and Abdul had some help with the hotel bill. I kept my mouth shut for the first time in my life. I didn't know what Abdul would have done had I mentioned how stupid he was for not talking to the person he fell in love with over the phone, or maybe even actually *meeting* the person before "falling in love".
And it reminds me of a story.
I went to DragonCon with a couple of people from the usenet group Alt.Vampyres. Not to worry; we were good friends who had actually met a few times and hit it off. We were meeting up with more folks from Alt.Vampyres.
We arrived at the Hilton a day early, so had to find someone to room with till the person with the Alt.Vampyres reservation showed up the next day. We found a note on one of the kiosks and went up to that room. The guy inside was fairly harmless. His name was Abdul (no, I'm not kidding about that).
And he related to us the reason he needed roommates at that time. You see, he was going to meet with his "girlfriend", who he met online. They had exchanged photos, and emails. But they never talked on the phone.
As it turned out, the person he fell in love with showed up at the hotel, and introduced himself. Yes, himself. He was an overweight, hairy Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force type. Gay. And he had his ass roundly kicked (according to Abdul) for being a guy and lying to poor Abdul.
No matter. We had a room for the night, and Abdul had some help with the hotel bill. I kept my mouth shut for the first time in my life. I didn't know what Abdul would have done had I mentioned how stupid he was for not talking to the person he fell in love with over the phone, or maybe even actually *meeting* the person before "falling in love".
Truth really is stranger, yadda yadda.
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