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Occasionally someone asks me about age-difference relationships, and I say that I've found the important thing is that both parties can take a joke about it.
Usually, this comes in the form of me giving Erik a whole lot of shit (or occasionally my parents giving us both shit, as in the infamous Fucking Ancient Incident). It was my turn this evening, and it was so beautiful and geeky that I thought y'all needed to hear it.
For some reason we were discussing 80s arcade games (which, naturally, E played in an 80s arcade, presumably while I was riding my tricycle or something). Maybe it was the existence of pong fanfiction, or that I'd found artist Steve Thomas and his video-game propaganda; somehow, he started telling me about the vast excitement of playing Frogger with his cousins on a commodore 64. He was trying to remember how old he was, and googled the '64, leading to the following exchange:
E: It was 1982! We got the commodore 64 when it first came out.
S: Oh. It came out a year before I did.
E: That's why you have a better operating system... *pause* ...and slightly more memory.
Usually, this comes in the form of me giving Erik a whole lot of shit (or occasionally my parents giving us both shit, as in the infamous Fucking Ancient Incident). It was my turn this evening, and it was so beautiful and geeky that I thought y'all needed to hear it.
For some reason we were discussing 80s arcade games (which, naturally, E played in an 80s arcade, presumably while I was riding my tricycle or something). Maybe it was the existence of pong fanfiction, or that I'd found artist Steve Thomas and his video-game propaganda; somehow, he started telling me about the vast excitement of playing Frogger with his cousins on a commodore 64. He was trying to remember how old he was, and googled the '64, leading to the following exchange:
E: It was 1982! We got the commodore 64 when it first came out.
S: Oh. It came out a year before I did.
E: That's why you have a better operating system... *pause* ...and slightly more memory.
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Date: 2011-09-29 05:20 am (UTC)From:I've always dated/been with guys older than me. Merrie's father is, um 16 years older than I, my ex-husband is 11, and Geordie is 8. I figure he's as young as I'm interested in going. No cougar tendencies here.
One time my ex (when we were married) was ranting about Nixon and politics. He stood there waving his hands about and said, "Don't you remember, in 1975 - " and I interrupted with, "Honey? I was five."
He stopped talking. I mean, what can you say to that?
*hee*
Older guys are just better.
Stasia
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Date: 2011-09-30 04:45 am (UTC)From:I keep better track of both years AND politics than Erik, so that particular brand of discussion will never occur. It does get a little silly when he talks about albums he got when they came out with my Dad. (Mom thinks it's great that I 'got him a friend', which makes dad sound pathetic, which he isn't).
Looks to me like you're trending younger -- sure that all the guys you've been with haven't been in the same age range? You could cougar yet. :P
Erik's a bit over 13 years older than me. There was a french college fling who was older, but he couldn't take a joke/discuss it, so to heck with that.
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Date: 2011-09-29 05:51 am (UTC)From:wait.
Pong fanfiction?
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Date: 2011-09-29 04:31 pm (UTC)From:That's brilliant! And I may have to have one of those posters :)
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