Geek Flirting: 101

OK... full disclosure... I am a bit of a "Star Wars Geek." (The original three, not the crap that came after) I love the movies, it framed a part of my life and certainly who I am today.  I've often wondered what it might be like to date a self confessed "Star Wars Geek" as well.  She no doubt would think the Princess Leia Slave outfit from "Return of the Jedi"

might be the appropriate costume for a night of adult fun and frolicking, but for me it is and will always be Leia in the white dress, laying on the hard black bed in the prison when Luke comes to rescue her...

Cinnabon hair, lounging provocatively... yep... I'd hit that faster than Han could get the Millennium Falcon into Hyper Space!  But I digress from the purpose of this post.

So I'm in one of my mobile offices today, doing some work for Triple Sticks Productions and I over hear the couple to my left, in the picture above and this guy is driving hard to the hole. They were both suppose to be studying something, but the conversation drifted to her first puppy she ever got, to video games and the flaws in PS2 when it comes to online gaming, to the history of Star Wars characters, starting from the NEW Episode one, moving forward.

My Jedi Knight wanna be friend started to lay out the history of the Sith's.  He was impressing her with his total knowledge and trust me she was interested in his mastery of a history that... well... really isn't REAL history!  Nonetheless he was pouring it on... even to the point after they walked out, they stood at her car for about another half hour chatting, no doubt debating whether or not Han or Greedo shot first in the Cantina.

The funniest thing about this whole virginal, flirt-session... at one point he said and I quote, "I really am not good at calculus, I wish I could master in Star Wars history and teach a class in that." Now before I could catch the phlegm that was coming up from me nearly laughing out laugh, the future Leia fantasy doppelganger hopeful fired back at blaster strength, "I would TOTALLY take that class if you taught it!"

And there you go...the beginning of a Sci-Fi, Erotic, Relationship that if both of them can actually brush knees against each other as they play video games sitting on his parents couch in the basement, might actually get physical.

Maybe I've been single too long... maybe my moves are no longer Jedi worthy and are laying dormant waiting for someone to spark my interest and fire them up like Luke did for Obi Wan... but I just had to smile at my two friends from a table a Far, Far, Away.

I am a romantic at heart and do hope they decide to go for it... they at least had the strength to share their love and take a chance in public... maybe that will lead to more.  So with that, Dynamic Duo... yes I'm aware I'm switching up mythology here for a second... I wish you luck!  Go forward and concur! Do it for all of those geeks stuck online having some kind of relationship with the computer and some person on the other end of your Internet line you think ACTUALLY IS someone that looks like the picture they sent you.  Be bold... kiss each other in real life and not virtually!  And God forbid, please be more Leia and Han rather than Luke and Leia... that's really creepy and incestuous.

May a wedding in the near future and the Force Be with You!