06.08
Ok, see I’ve always considered myself a worthy geek. I mean I use the word “grok” in normal speech, I can argue the finer points of Lord of the Rings… that I first read in high school when I played a Ranger and a Thief in AD&D (and yes, I do still have the books, they’re in a box with my Commodore 64… seriously).
But tonight I met a Transformers geek.
“Oh I can’t wait for the movie,” he said eyeing the Transformers book I bought on impulse for my son.
“Oh yeah,” I said with honest enthusiasm. I mean c’mon the trailers do look great!
“I mean it’s too bad they made Bumblebee a camaro,” he went on. The disdain in the word camaro was noticable. “I mean, everyone knows he was a VW beetle.”
“Uh… yeah.” Bumble-who?
Suddenly I had this weird urge to lock him in a locker.
