Tengotengo
02-16-2011, 10:05 PM
So I'm on a run in the sewers with a guy I friended a while ago. We're peeling down the central hall and I'm comboing the black-garbed bears and birds into piles of charred ash. We're cutting a fair pace with the rest of the adds when he bursts out that his girlfriend cheated on him.
Well, the group and I start reacting with condolences. We're trucking on down to Goldfever, AKA Fat Rocky Horror, when I start doing what I do best in my circle of IRL friends; start a dialogue about healing processes and problem/issue solving. "Women will do that sometimes; it's a part of the human condition. Women want protection and men want procreation...by the way, how old is she?"
This is when I found out that she's a little younger than my friend, who happens to be 14.
I'm 36.
This conversation LITERALLY took on the imagery of a passenger jet getting an anti-aircraft missile through the wing in the little movie theater in my head. All of the wannabe helpful thoughts and feelings in my there were now beating each other for the oxygen masks, stealing all the tiny bottles of liquor they can and recklessly copulating with each other in hopes of reaching Nirvana in pleasure, not pain.
We charged in on Rocky Horror. He beat on that buttery beast as an effigy to his relationship done wrong, and all I could do was spam my spells as I was laughing too hard to see the screen of my Droid.
Here's the thing. This never happened to me on Everquest. We were all in a similar bracket of ages, I guess. 20s and early 30s at the most usually. The weird thing was always the distance. One of my best friend's guildmates lived in Australia, another in Germany. One of his hated enemies was a Frenchman.
It's the age thing. I just didn't fathom playing shoulder-to-shoulder with a player that could be one of my wife's history students.
Oh well. Got a yellow cap out of it.
Well, the group and I start reacting with condolences. We're trucking on down to Goldfever, AKA Fat Rocky Horror, when I start doing what I do best in my circle of IRL friends; start a dialogue about healing processes and problem/issue solving. "Women will do that sometimes; it's a part of the human condition. Women want protection and men want procreation...by the way, how old is she?"
This is when I found out that she's a little younger than my friend, who happens to be 14.
I'm 36.
This conversation LITERALLY took on the imagery of a passenger jet getting an anti-aircraft missile through the wing in the little movie theater in my head. All of the wannabe helpful thoughts and feelings in my there were now beating each other for the oxygen masks, stealing all the tiny bottles of liquor they can and recklessly copulating with each other in hopes of reaching Nirvana in pleasure, not pain.
We charged in on Rocky Horror. He beat on that buttery beast as an effigy to his relationship done wrong, and all I could do was spam my spells as I was laughing too hard to see the screen of my Droid.
Here's the thing. This never happened to me on Everquest. We were all in a similar bracket of ages, I guess. 20s and early 30s at the most usually. The weird thing was always the distance. One of my best friend's guildmates lived in Australia, another in Germany. One of his hated enemies was a Frenchman.
It's the age thing. I just didn't fathom playing shoulder-to-shoulder with a player that could be one of my wife's history students.
Oh well. Got a yellow cap out of it.