sillyheads

For all the crap I write about my exes and all of my questionable dating decisions, it must be said that every guy I've dated has at least been entertaining.

Like my high school boyfriend, Pete. Pete was a nice guy, but we were incredibly ill-suited for each other in that we never had anything to talk about unless we were about to break-up. Looking back, some of my best conversations with Pete were when we were on the brink of ending. If nothing catastrophic was about to happen, he was the kind of guy who'd rather play Megaman than have a conversation, whereas I am the kind of girl who requires a LOT of verbal attention. (Poor Tyler, he can't ever get in a word edgewise.)

But I remember this one time, he came up to me with genuine excitement and said, "I've got a really amazing idea! WHAT IF...we did what Blockbuster does with videos, but we do it with books?? Like we just have all these books that you can rent out for free, but you have to take it back after a certain period of time! Then you wouldn't have to go out and spend money to buy them!!!"

"Pete. It's called a library," I said. Sillyhead. What can I say, he was kind of a genius. I have no doubt he's still out there coming up with brilliant and revolutionary ideas. ("What if you could download music directly to your computer???")

My current romantic attachment is at least two higher ed degrees above Pete, but that hasn't prevented him in the least from being just a little bit off-kilter. Yesterday, I met up with Tyler before his softball game and told him that I had a treat for him. This is the conversation that ensued:

Tyler: Um...I was told I would be given a treat. Where is the treat?
Me: [opens lunchbag] Here you go!
Tyler: [suspiciously] What is that?
Me: Half a sandwich! And a Coke!
Tyler: [crestfallen] Oh.
Me: [worried] Don't you like it? You need sustenance for your game.
Tyler: Well, it's just that when you said "treat," I thought it would be sweet.
Me: The pop is sweet.
Tyler: Okay, honestly, it's b/c when you said "treat," for some reason I had a jelly doughnut pictured in my head, so that's what I was expecting to get.

These boy-children. Sillyheads.