Monday, March 28, 2011

n[a]r[r]a[t]ive - boys gone geek

In the n[a]r[r]a[t]ive series I tell true stories from my own life and the lives of people I know in order to teach highly important lessons on art, business, and life in general.

Kevin - actually camping
In June of this year I will have been married four years.  I met my main squeeze, Kevin, in high school, but we aren't technically high school sweethearts.  Our school was fairly large, and we didn't meet until halfway through our senior year in Ms. Stewart's English class.  We had just enough time to get to know each other during that last semester, and started officially dating the summer after graduation.

When I met Kevin, I believe he was starting the long and arduous process of "de-geeking." You see...he was a pretty major geek before I met him.  His geeky qualities included, but were not limited to: being the computer expert in his family at the age of 10, the inability to form a firm grasp on the concept of fashion, an aversion and fear of the female species, and, most importantly, a true love of Mountain Dew Code Red when paired with hours of computer gaming awesomeness.

I believe the pentacle of Kevin's geek life came when he and his friends decided to go camping.  Normally, I would think they were about to embark on a very non-geeky excursion by heading to the heart of nature to rough it for a weekend.  But alas, this was no ordinary camping trip.  

You see, the geeksters decided to turn Kevin's family motor home into a portable LAN party.  For all of you normal people out there, a LAN party is where you get a bunch of computers in the same room and you play an interactive computer game with multiple people.  So, instead of going on hikes or swimming in a lake, they were shut up in a motor home....playing computer games.  Oh, and it helps to mention that this was before laptops were popular, so they put together 5 or 6 DESKTOP computers in said motor home.  

They. Were. Awesome.

Moral - Do whatever makes you happy - even if it's as lame as camping with computers

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6 comments:

  1. lovely story!! brought a smile to my face :)

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  2. You just made my day :) I love geeks. They are my prefered boyfriends.

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  3. yesssss....good memories. i think how i'm responsible for your marriage should also be brought forth. ;)

    thanks big yellow mercedes.

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  4. bahahaha that's more like the kevin I remember :) And sounds strangely just like my brother.

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  5. Ha! Ha! I like the moral of your story...Be you, no matter what...or where!!! LOL

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  6. $10 says he was wearing that puffy red vest at the time. Good thing he's cool now. :)

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