Thursday, August 10, 2006

Bad Idea #21 - Talking about Star Wars and expecting me not to make fun of him.

21. Talking about Star Wars trivia in my presence and getting offended when I call him out on it.

I was walking the other day, and noticed my roommate's voice was behind me, talking to someone else. He got closer, and I could start making out what he was saying:

Roommate - "What was...Ben Kenobi so impressed with the first time he met Anakin?"
Me (turning around) - "He was impressed with the fact that you're a huge freaking dork."
Roommate's friend - "Hey f--- you!"

And then silence.

Two hours later while we were quietly doing our own thing in our room, my roommate abruptly looked up from a comic book graphic novel to start this conversation-

Roommate - "Hey, you know, I would really appreciate it if you didn't call me a dork in front of other people."
Me - "Fine."
Roommate - "Well, do you think I'm a dork?"
Me - "I think it's ridiculously dorky to talk about Star Wars trivia in public and not expect to get called out on it."
Roommate - "Well I didn't think it was funny."

Great. Now he's easily offended. I wonder what he will think if he discovers this blog. Oh well, I'll deal with it then.

6 comments:

FUNGtastic said...

i think you should post as much as possible about your roommate with terrible ideas before he discovers it.

Shane said...

Well, yeah. That's exactly what I'm doing here.

Anonymous said...

I like your blog. Your roommate is giving you military men a bad name....

James said...
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James said...

to be fair, when dealing with any group of individuals in a school environment you are going to run across a vast spectrum of hobbies and interests (especially when those individuals come from all walks of life and sub-cultures). Still, understanding that means showing off your star wars "knowledge" should fit into the "wait until you know someone is into that kind of thing" category. For myself, I can only say that I balance my interest in graphic novels (known as comic books to the educated man, which are dorky as all get out) with a healthy interest in martial arts and generally kicking butt (which helps preclude undue consequences from the former).
on an unrelated note: http://www.ochef.com/165.htm we were talking about that earlier

adameepoo said...

star wars is cool, you're the dork here