"Like, Totally" Part Deux

(September 05, 2006)

So there's the 80s party this coming Saturday night, and I found something online that Joe will wear; it's a black T-shirt, an item he wears five days a week anyway -- this black T-shirt has an A-Team logo on it. I'm going to try to get him into some stonewashed blue jeans instead of the black ones he wears every day, but he doesn't know that yet.

I'd found the A-Team T-shirt online last weekend but hadn't ordered it yet; I just ordered it today on a break at work. I also found a Pac Man belt on the same 80's website. I had to get it. He'll never put it on, costume party or not. But we'll see.

While I was ordering the 80s stuff, Joe had gone to lunch and a quick stop at Newbury Comics with a work friend.

When he came back and IM'd me, this is what happened:

onlyone: i did get us a new joseph arthur and an antibalas cd. AND A TALKING SIXTEEN CANDLES PEN!

LexiKahn: oh. my. god. Was it like, ten minutes ago?

onlyone: yes. well, maybe 15.

LexiKahn: IS THIS IT?

onlyone: THAT'S TOTALLY IT!

LexiKahn: I only ask because like 10 or 15 minutes ago when I ordered your A-Team T-shirt and Pac Man belt from 80sTees.com, clicked around their "new items page" for the fuck of it. I FOUND THAT PEN AND ALMOST GOT IT.

onlyone: lol! that's too funny.

LexiKahn: Oh my GOD. What if I had bought it? You'd have said 'I got us a Sixteen Candles talking pen' and I'd have said 'So did I' and you would not have believed me.

onlyone: you're right! that is hilarious.

LexiKahn: That means we both were going "GASP!! Is that a 16 Candles Talking Pen and why don't we own one!" at the same moment in time. My mouse was literally hovering over "Add to Cart."

onlyone: why are we so good together? ;-)

Well, there's things like "chemistry" and "understanding" and "devotion" and "love," you can bat those terms around the ballpark all night, but Proof of Compatibility always comes right at you when you're not looking for it. Just like God.