So, my boyfriend is in one of the upstairs bedrooms, playing Diablo II on his really-quite-too-powerful computer. And I'm in the OTHER upstairs bedroom, sitting on the bed reading a graphic novel. Well, okay, re-re-re-reading it.
And then I looked up and noticed that... it was 9pm. The next forty seconds of my boyfriend's life sounded like this (minus the Diablo II sound effects):
stompstomp stompstomp STOMPSTOMP STOMPSTOMP STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! THUD! "ICE CREAM!"
"Um, what?"
"ICE CREAM!"
"Oh, you want to go get ice cream?"
"ICE CREAM!"
"Uh, okay, gimme a sec... what time is it?"
"ICE C... oh. Uh. It's nine."
"Give me ten minutes to find the waypoint."
"Ice cream."
I like going to the outdoors ice cream place, because it feels so friendly. You've got all these different people, a fair number of them dressed in wet swimsuits and towels, some with dogs, some in rollerblades, and of course a large number of teenagers bucking for the 'Most Fashionably Alienated Clothing' award. And you all sit around on cement benches in the gathering dusk and create this peaceful little community of ice cream eaters. Love, peace, and ice cream. Oh, and neat dogs to play with.
I guess it's as close to communal living as I'll ever get, since I normally hide in my basement away from all the icky people who want to interact with me and deal with the world over the Internet. Alienated? Me? Ha!
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Ice cream is good. Ice cream is *very* good, actually. Ohhhh... happy scene. I like.
Posted by Nathan @ 07/24/2001 07:13 AM EST
These are happy thoughts, Moon! ^_^ I like to do things like that too.....but never get to. :(
And consider yourself lucky about one thing; after a lot of people I know are done playing Diablo II, one of the LEAST likely things you'd hear them say is "Ice cream"! LOL
Posted by Wolf @ 07/24/2001 08:46 PM EST
Boyfriend seems very much like a friend of mine. Computer-nerd, book freak, Mooncalf fan...it's uncanny!
Posted by Darkmoon the Mad @ 07/25/2001 01:36 AM EST
