And now for something completely different
Why I love my husband:
Today, we went to the comic book shop as part of my birthday weekend celebration... thing. So, there we were, in our local CBS, browsing and flipping through issues and pointing things out to each other, and... well, okay -- our local CBS is a place I usually frequent during the week, if I'm going to pick something up for Tora over the weekend or whatever. And it's usually dead, and I usually end up chatting with whoever's behind the counter for a while. When I go, I consider it to be a very girl-friendly kind of place. But, also, it's usually pretty dead. Today when we went, it was kind of packed. With, you know. Guys.
Soooo, we go in, and I am completely oblivious to the fact that I am the only female in the entire store, but I'm poking around looking for things, and generally enjoying myself. Then, with several BtVS issues I'd been missing and The Long Halloween, I went up to the counter to pay. There was a cluster of about four guys hanging out, talking with the dude behind the counter, mostly talking about RPG stuff. And... okay, they were pretty standard comic geeks. And they, like nice guys, moved out of the way so I could give the nice man my money and we left.
The following conversation occurred on the way back to the car:
George: "Man, you are like nerd Kryptonite."
Me: "Huh?"
George: "Did you not see those guys? You walked up, and they parted like the Red Sea!"
Me: "I guess that would be the power of boobs, huh?"
George: "Seriously. They did not know what to do. A REAL GIRL. RIGHT THERE."
Me: "The Keeper of the Estrogen has infiltrated our sanctuary!!"
George: "What do we do?! ROLL THE DICE! ROLL THE DICE! THE DICE WILL TELL US!"
Me: "She seems to be friendly to the manly one. Perhaps he can reason with her!"
George: "I thought one of 'em was going to come up to me and say, 'You permit the fairer sex to handle our sacred tomes! How could you!?'"
Me: "...I was the only girl in there?"
George: "I'm pretty sure. And they scattered when you walked up."
Me: "That's awesome."
Today, we went to the comic book shop as part of my birthday weekend celebration... thing. So, there we were, in our local CBS, browsing and flipping through issues and pointing things out to each other, and... well, okay -- our local CBS is a place I usually frequent during the week, if I'm going to pick something up for Tora over the weekend or whatever. And it's usually dead, and I usually end up chatting with whoever's behind the counter for a while. When I go, I consider it to be a very girl-friendly kind of place. But, also, it's usually pretty dead. Today when we went, it was kind of packed. With, you know. Guys.
Soooo, we go in, and I am completely oblivious to the fact that I am the only female in the entire store, but I'm poking around looking for things, and generally enjoying myself. Then, with several BtVS issues I'd been missing and The Long Halloween, I went up to the counter to pay. There was a cluster of about four guys hanging out, talking with the dude behind the counter, mostly talking about RPG stuff. And... okay, they were pretty standard comic geeks. And they, like nice guys, moved out of the way so I could give the nice man my money and we left.
The following conversation occurred on the way back to the car:
George: "Man, you are like nerd Kryptonite."
Me: "Huh?"
George: "Did you not see those guys? You walked up, and they parted like the Red Sea!"
Me: "I guess that would be the power of boobs, huh?"
George: "Seriously. They did not know what to do. A REAL GIRL. RIGHT THERE."
Me: "The Keeper of the Estrogen has infiltrated our sanctuary!!"
George: "What do we do?! ROLL THE DICE! ROLL THE DICE! THE DICE WILL TELL US!"
Me: "She seems to be friendly to the manly one. Perhaps he can reason with her!"
George: "I thought one of 'em was going to come up to me and say, 'You permit the fairer sex to handle our sacred tomes! How could you!?'"
Me: "...I was the only girl in there?"
George: "I'm pretty sure. And they scattered when you walked up."
Me: "That's awesome."