Oh, the Power!

I was in Best Buy the other day to help my mom pick out a laptop and ended up spending quite a bit of time there because we had purchased a floor model that had to be reformatted before we could bring it home. While wandering the aisles and chatting with the clerks, I noticed a strange phenomenon. When I talked to the Geek Squad guys, the TV guy and the digital camera guy, they all seemed to hang on my every word. Because I knew what HDMI stands for (High-Definition Multimedia Interface, in case you were wondering) and the difference between DDR2 and DDR3, it was like I had some kind of magical power over them. I am not sure if this was because I was particularly well dressed that day or it's always been this way and I have just been too busy looking at shiny new electronics to notice, but I like it. I did not have the same experience with female employees, but I suspect that they were probably of the same species as I was. The rare and inimitable Geek Girl.

I had a particularly long conversation with the attractive British guy selling us a macbook, and when I came to pick it up later, he said to the guys in the back "this is the girl I told you about who plays Dragon Age!". My mom happened to catch part of our discussion and later, after telling me I should marry him, confessed that she thought that when was spouting off about how she needed an optical audio cable for her surround sound, that I might have been bullshitting a bit- thanks for the confidence mom. My ability to rattle away about stuff with the Best Buy guy convinced her otherwise.

I would like to state for the record that in the 21st century, one can be both geeky and cool at the same time- really, it's true!

-A.