So Judy was here visiting. It was easy to tell it was Judy when she walked into the train station, because there is, in my wide experience (and surely, few experiencers can have had a wider one, what with me having met in meatspace something over 100 people whom I first met online) a certain expression that people have when they’re away from home and meeting up for the first time with some other cybernaut who, come to think of it and they do and BOY do they look worried when they realize this, they haven’t the faintest idea what they look like. And likewise.
So, I was looking for a tall American brunette, and she was looking for a short Canadian blonde with a Moosehat sticker from the Northern Voice blogging conference, and although we are not exactly a dime a dozen, even in the train station, nevertheless the situation is enough to give one pause.
She paused.
With that certain look on her face. That alright now I can figure this out. I can handle this. If she turns out to be a freak there are plenty of people around who can call the cops, and I can always get another train back home look.
And I tried not to have my oh, I’ve seen that look before, newbie look on my face although it must be said that of all the emotions, smugness comes perhaps most easily to me, even when it’s not appropriate, but then when has the fear of looking like a idjut ever stopped me, eh? I ask yez.
And we had a lovely time. I made sure to take her by the library and Canada Place and the Marine building and other suchlike architectural wonders, of which it must be said that Vancouver has very few but as long as nobody tells her different and who’s to do that, she’ll never know the place isn’t larded with gems, eh?
And we went patio-ing. Yes, it’s a verb here. We do a lot of patioing in BC, although we also do a lot of other social things, too, which you can tell from the fact that Whistler has its own strain of genital warts, but we didn’t do any of that.
Especially not on the patio. Hell, it wasn’t the Cambie!
But as we were on the patio, enjoying our refreshing beverages and making amusing comments about some kind of corporate teambuilding exercise which apparently involved vast herds of nerdy-looking men in matching t-shirts running at speed back and forth through the restaurant, it became apparent that Judy was working up her courage. Finally, after an internal struggle and a moment of distracted yet anticipatory silence, it came out.
“So…what is it with you and squid?”
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Wow it took her that long to ask? I probably would have been holding a sign as I got off the tain, “What is it with you and squid?” Just to be real easy to spot and get things off on the right foot.
Well she was polite enough not to point out the tentacles peeking out from under my jeans. Although I must say, having people meet me with giant “SO WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND SQUID?” signs is an attractive thought.
Well I thought it kind of rocked but oddly the last five people I did that to did not find it amusing.
Go figure.
Her Grace the Marchioness de W’hampton under B de la Zouche
Your Grace
Wowwwe – a Guido Fawkes Hat-tip …. Respect !!!
Yr Grace’s un-h-tipp’d obedt servt etc
Beautiful video and a captivating story, rc. Probably not anytime real soon, but someday I’ll get around to visiting the Couve and BC—it’s high on the list. And some of us know better than to imagine that that which is up between you and the squiddies is effable in our simple alphabet.
Ah, Grasshopper, if you wish a GF hat-tip, you must have a blog to tip towards. Most of the ones who just give him straight gossip do NOT want it attributed, naturally.
max: some people just don’t get it.
Curtis, exactly. Let me know when you’re passing through and we’ll go for some calamari.
Such a better write up of our visit than the one i did. I’ll be linking to it today ;-)
I would like to add, for the record, that one of the reasons i had that look on my face in the train station was that there were like five short Canadian blondes meeting the train. I totally should have done the squid sign (such an excellent idea, max).
Thanks, I’ll check out your account.
max has started a trend. Squid Signs. So hot right now.
Yay!
I have to say that I’m tickled by the term meatspace. I haven’t yet met any bloggers in meatspace that I hadn’t already known before.
As for the squids, what’s not to love? I like max’s idea of the sign. We need more squid signs. So I made one.
Squid signs: Can you ever have enough?
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