So, I play warcraft, right? Anyway, I’m in this guild run by a coworker, and as our best geared healer, I run the healers (and the raids if he’s not there) etc etc. It’s fun, I get to be a control freak, and have minor hissy fits when someone stands in the fire.
Anyway, so we’ve got some pretty awesome people in our guild. One guy in particular I just adore, he’s funny as hell, a good player, and always amuses me. We end up chatting a lot while we play and just generally just goofing around. There’s some mild flirting, mostly in the way of very mild innuendo. (In YOUR endo!) But really, nothing excessive — Nick is also in our guild, and that would just be weird. I actually very purposely DON’T talk about sex very much, because there aren’t a lot of women in our guild, and I don’t want to be thought of as “that girl” who only gets to come on raids because she’ll show you her tits. But I’m very much me, which means I run my mouth off at times, and my humor is occasionally a bit dirty.
So last night, we’re both running around doing insanely boring quests, and chatting about nothing in particular. At one point, he mentions how he’s going to college in the fall. I pause briefly. “So… you’re 18?” I say, thinking oh fuck, I’ve got to watch my mouth a bit better. “No,” he says. Phew, I think.
“I’m seventeen. I’ll be eighteen in may.”
Aaaah! I’m going to wind up on Dateline. I SWEAR CHRIS HANSEN, I THOUGHT HE WAS IN HIS 20s!
On the upside, it’d be totally legal in Canada. Just very, very squicky. I kind of felt the need to go have a very hot shower, you know, to scrub off the shame.
He’s still awesome, I’m just going to have to watch my mouth a little better, methinks. Eep.
I’m pretty sure that your previous level of self-censorship was just fine for a male 17-year old who’s been playing WoW for (at least) a year. I’m sure he can find a lot worse out there.
This isn’t about HIS comfort level, it’s MY comfort level. I don’t care if he goes off and downloads broom rape porn (hi Jenn!) I don’t wanna be a part of that with a kid.
(And he’s only been playing for a few months, he started in ToC. But he’s been playing other MMO’s for about 6 years. heh.)
Fair enough. I think such things have been a bit abraded away for me, since I’m surrounded by 18-22 year olds in my classes. *shudder* ;-)
I’m trying to spit out a thought, but for some reason, words elude me…