So, should I....

[callmepatsy]

1.) Wait until Christmas and hope I get enough gift cards to some DVD retailer to cover the Doctor Who Season 4 box set , or...

2.) Just come out of the geek closet and ask for the Doctor Who Season 4 box set , which will spark an inevitable "You want WHAT?" from my parents.

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[penny_lane_42]

My sister came in my room last night and saw the copies of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen laying on my floor (one of my friends let me borrow them; he's convinced it will convert me to the comic book side of the Force) and told me she'd be less weirded out if she'd found me with porn. Apparently, comic books are the thing you should be most ashamed of in the world.

I was rather shocked at this exchange--she already knew I was a geek, so why did this freak her out so much?

But anyways, I'd go with #2. Just because then your dirty secret is out in the open and you don't have to think about it anymore. Plus, you're guaranteed to get what you want that way, right?

[callmepatsy]

she'd be less weirded out if she'd found me with porn.

That is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard.

It would guarantee getting what I want, but I'm reasonably sure that my parents have never even heard of Doctor Who, or if they have, know as much about it as your average non-geeky American (which is to say, nothing) and it will start a whole conversation that will reveal the true depth of my geekiness. In fact, they might find it less shocking if I asked for porn.

[penny_lane_42]

I'm glad you got a kick out of it. Sometimes I have to wonder how we're related, honestly.

I'm reasonably sure that my parents have never even heard of Doctor Who My parents are the same way. My dad just asked me what I was watching, and when I said, "Doctor Who," he rolled his eyes and left the room. I guarantee my mama's never heard of it.

But my parents are well associated with me watching random TV shows. They don't even bring it up anymore.

In fact, they might find it less shocking if I asked for porn. Ha! It's the new standard for geekiness. Is it more shocking than porn?

[bazcat89]

Ask for it; you cannot leave this up to chance.

[callmepatsy]

Yes, but then they will inevitably research what it is....and imagine how it sounds...

[afterthree]

I'll vote for out-of-the-closet geekery every time, you know me.

[callmepatsy]

I've spent the last thirty minutes or so trying to word the e-mail in the most offhand way possible, like "So, if you were thinking about what to get me, there is this DVD I'd kind of like...."

[miss_mishi]

Ask for it unless you KNOW you can get enough $$ in giftcards...

[callmepatsy]

Well, I always gets loads of bookstore gift cards from relatives who don't know what else to get me, but my fear is that they'll all be fore different places (Borders, B&N, amazon) and none will add up to enough...

[_thirty2flavors]

I went with #2 myself, despite knowing my mom would go "what?" and my dad would make fun of me even though he''s a Trekkie and has no room to talk, anyway. In the relatively unlikely event I don't actually get it for Christmas, I am going to be fiscally irresponsible and purchase them myself, soooo...

LIRL High-five.

[callmepatsy]

I have considered being fiscally irresponsible and purchasing it myself, but...my financial situation at the moment is such that that could result in my not paying rent, so...

I know both my parents will go "what?" and the making fun will commence once one of them thinks to google it and realizes what it is...

[_thirty2flavors]

...yeahhh not such a good idea then. BUT DUDE, WHY ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE? so uncool.

My mom really has no idea what it is, though she was in the room the other day when Forest of the Dead was on, while DOnna was scream/crying over her fake children, and she made some remark about how loud it was or something. But her TV shows include Two and a Half Men, CSI and Grey's, so she has no room to judge.

And my dad's watched a couple episodes with me... kind of... and done the *silently thinks it's riiduclous* thing. Though apparently he gets a kick out of Tennant's eyes, he's mentioned them like, three times. I presume because half the time they are wide and crazy. I just kind of laugh and refrain from mentioning how stupidly attracted I am to that man.

[callmepatsy]

That sounds rather like my mother's viewing habits and my dad doesn't watch much TV at all, so I'm pretty sure they'll see "sci-fi" and their brains will go directly to star trek and "omg our daughter is so lame!" My mom might appreciate Tennant, hard to say, he's not really her type, but then he's not really my type either and I'm in love with him, so maybe the universal attractiveness factor would work on her.