Editor’s Note: About half-way through the Lost Tales section. I just needed to get a quick disclaimer done over this funny encounter since it took place in November, not the date this will be posted. It’ll be moved to its proper time when it drops off the front page.
We haven’t been to D&B (short for Dave & Buster’s) much with Pinballz gaining a bigger presence in my life but we were in the neighborhood to get something from a nearby Bed, Bath & Beyond. The food remains pretty good which was the main draw. Afterwards Somara needed to get something else at World Market and wanted play the games, namely the trivia one. Monday evening isn’t a good night though, few people are around. The trivia game isn’t much fun without multiple players; the amount of tickets it awards increases with competition.
Resigned to the place being nearly dead, I amused myself playing the first-person shooter of Aliens. Then a young woman came up to me, asked if I would play the trivia game with her. I said sure, let me finish this. She replied she’d meet me at it after she went to the bathroom.
As we got started by running our cards through, she said don’t go easy on me, don’t let me win. I said, OK, it’s just a game. I beat her for the first three sessions before finally realizing she had been drinking too much. When she started volunteering information to a complete stranger (me), then I got puzzled. OK, you dig girls as well as guys, whatever floats your boat, more power to you, focus on the game please. After a few more victories I fessed up about being a member of a consistently winning Geeks Who Drink team so she didn’t feel like I was hustling her. She answered, well you looked smart which is why I asked you to play. Ah yes, wearing glasses, my work badge still on and dressed in one of my numerous cartoon/wise-ass/ironic shirts. Maybe the beard helped. I called it a night after a couple more games. Thanked her and some others who joined.
The experience made me chuckle and I couldn’t wait to share this with Somara. My thoughts were, why the hell would someone tell me they dig both sexes? I’m a stranger! Somara’s response was the young lady was hitting on me based upon the things she said. How could Somara be so sure, she wasn’t there. Besides, I have a hard time believing it thanks to my age, I have white/gray patches in my beard. No, Somara said it’s not the first time I’ve been oblivious and that’s why she’s stuck with me all these years.
Well, if I knew being good at Trivial Pursuit could’ve helped me meet the ladies in the Eighties, I would’ve hit the pub quiz circuit sooner! The annual Geek Bowl will be in Austin next year but I doubt I could pick up any groupies.
I’ve been listening to too much Marc Maron as well. My other thought was the young lady having daddy issues, ergo, being involved with a guy almost twice her age is her thing. It can’t be money.