Sometime last week I had premier Internet installed in my home. Basically, installation involved having some guy swap out my router. I would have been able to do it for them but they insisted they send over a registered and licensed installer to cover their ass.
The guy comes over. He has a very bubbly attitude. Pretty overweight. He caught me off guard because I was registering for College classes that day and totally forgot about my appointment. So he comes over, my room has pieces of paper, mail, computer bits, and socks scattered everywhere. Thousands of socks on every table, inch of floor, and on top of the TV. Don't ask.
The other thing that I forgot to do was change my wallpaper. I don't like Anime, and one of the major reasons for that is I feel like a gigantic friend watching anything made in Japan. However, my
wallpaper is a drawn picture of an Anime character that I have a particular affinity for. Still, I only have it up because nobody lives in my house and nobody can see it. Except for this guy.
He boots up the computer and makes a comment on the wallpaper almost immediately. "Is this Rebecca Miyamoto from Pani Poni Dash?"
I knew who it was but absolutely did not think he needed to know I watched Anime at any point in time so I just said "I think so." and that was the end of it.
I only bring this up because at some point I apologize for my room being a disaster area. I explain I was signing up for college courses that day and didn't have time to clean. The natural segway from that is a question about what major. I say I want to develop software and joke about how my grandmother wants me to program missile guidance systems. He mentions that he knew a few engineers that worked on those systems.. when he was a marine.
The guy was a marine. He killed people. He watches anime. What.
