Alleged conversation
Jun. 24th, 2005 09:47 pmImagine there is someone at work you get along really well with. Someone you have a friend-crush on, a crush as in, Man I Would So Love To Hang Out With You But I Am Too Shy To Ask If You Want To Go To Dinner. You love talking about books and movies with him and you share a lot of the same tastes, but more importantly, you like these things you have in common for the same reasons. He thinks Ayn Rand is a lunatic! What more could one want in a potential friend?
Right, with me so far?
Now imagine that you have just tentatively confessed your love for Harry Potter and your eagerness to read the new book--this is a love you prefer to keep under wraps with the large portions of the population you're afraid might ask uncomfortable questions--and WOW HE IS A BIG HARRY POTTER FAN. He mentions that he's read the books and that he travels so much that he wants them on audio but audible doesn't carry them (incredulous, you have since checked the veracity of this statement, and not only does audible not have them, but they have a whole email address devoted to requests for HP on audio) and every time he goes to the library they're checked out.
Still following? Okay, so imagine the following exchange.
You: Oh! I have them on audio! I can make copies for you if you want.
He: Would you? That would be the best thing ever!
You: Sure! I'll get the first four to you tomorrow, because they're all huge mp3s, but the last one will take a few days because it's on 23 CDs and I'll have to convert them for you.
He: Well, the first four will keep me busy for a while. Now which is the last one? Is that the one with the maze?
You: No, it's the one where Sirius dies.
He: ...
You: ...
He: ...
You: OH MY GOD. You have not read that one.
He: O_o I GUESS NOT.
Right, with me so far?
Now imagine that you have just tentatively confessed your love for Harry Potter and your eagerness to read the new book--this is a love you prefer to keep under wraps with the large portions of the population you're afraid might ask uncomfortable questions--and WOW HE IS A BIG HARRY POTTER FAN. He mentions that he's read the books and that he travels so much that he wants them on audio but audible doesn't carry them (incredulous, you have since checked the veracity of this statement, and not only does audible not have them, but they have a whole email address devoted to requests for HP on audio) and every time he goes to the library they're checked out.
Still following? Okay, so imagine the following exchange.
You: Oh! I have them on audio! I can make copies for you if you want.
He: Would you? That would be the best thing ever!
You: Sure! I'll get the first four to you tomorrow, because they're all huge mp3s, but the last one will take a few days because it's on 23 CDs and I'll have to convert them for you.
He: Well, the first four will keep me busy for a while. Now which is the last one? Is that the one with the maze?
You: No, it's the one where Sirius dies.
He: ...
You: ...
He: ...
You: OH MY GOD. You have not read that one.
He: O_o I GUESS NOT.