I've been sick for the better part of two months now. First it was the ear infection from hell. That was followed shortly by a sinus infection. There's a solid chance that I'm dying, so if you're from that Make-A-Wish foundation please send a scantily clad, short, nerdy girl over to my house as soon as possible. Bonus points if she's in to short nerds, or gets a discount at zPizza.
One day the ear was so bad that I took the morning off from work and just slept in. I awoke at noon to find the phone all abuzz with work emails detailing various problems, and finally decided to haul my sorry ass in. The thing with being a software engineer is that when you're not around, it's all your fault. Everything. Even in my weakened state, I wasn't going to stand for that, so I cleaned myself up, threw on a fresh set of clothes, and headed in to the office, prepared to kick some nerd ass.
As I rounded the last stairwell in the parking garage I heard a voice.
"Excuse me... um... excuse me?"
I hadn't seen anyone in the garage, so the voice took me by surprise. I searched around and eventually found a head hanging over from the floor above. This head happened to belong to a particularly cute girl and it was staring back at me.
"Um... could you jump me?"
Holy crap, am I still sleeping? Did I accidentally walk on to the set of a porno?
I considered taking my pants off and doing my sexy time dance, but instead opted for something less.
"Pardon?"
Normally I'd have put two and two together, but my brain still wasn't functioning yet. I stared back at her questioningly.
"My car... the battery is dead. I think I left dome light on."
Oh... of course...
Minutes later I'd be helping her with her car and trying to awkwardly make small talk. It wasn't my usual D+ game, but I was sick so I'm giving myself a pass. Later in the month I would find out that the girl actually lives on my floor a few doors down.
While I haven't talked to the girl since, I like to think that we're just taking it slow. At our current pace, I fully expect to tell this story at our wedding in 2054. Save the date cards coming soon!
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You'd better take some antibiotics before the Suns game tonight...We need better than your D+ game against the Lakers
ReplyDeleteone of these days your story will start off like this and actually END like a porno....
ReplyDelete...but today is not that day my friend.
as a side note, my "word verification for this comment is "railed". freakin' hilarious in its appropriatenessissity.
Yeah, I had to turn word verification and some other things on. I didn't used to have those, but the twitter post was getting 3-4 spam messages a day. I got tired of deleting them.
ReplyDeleteI blew it again on Saturday night, details coming whenever I figure out how to put a funny slant to it.