Joshua has a flock of admirers. Daily, several girls from his class text him, call him, surround him, and flirt with him, constantly vying for his attention. Of course he eats up the attention, showing off, and strutting around like male members of the species do, when impressing females. But he has his standards. No one, but no one, can compete with Lord of the Rings Online.
Today, his cell phone rang and rang and rang. Finally he answered it, "What?! Marilyn...I'm in the middle of something really important. I'm playing this game, and I'm dying. I can't pause to talk to you."
A few minutes later, it rang again.
And again.
And again.
Finally, realizing she was getting no where talking to Joshua's voice mail, Marilyn, decided to call the land line. Jeremy answered. Trying to keep the laughter and mockery out of his voice, he repeated Josh's words, "I'm sorry, Marilyn, Joshua is REALLY busy. He's playing a game and he's dying. He just can't pause."
Later this evening, Jeremy, unable to contain his laughter any longer told me this story.
"Man, he is SO hosing his future chances at dating some of these girls," I said. "He might as well stamp a huge sign on his forehead "NERD!" or "GEEK!" now and get it over with. I might need to instruct him on the whole 'Girls are more important than Video Games" just in case. Because when he finally does figure that out...it might be too late by then."
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