Email received from friend Casey.

Goody!

Subject: Dave Beethoven
Message: Strange things are afoot at the Circle K, Ted.

Megan Response:

Exactly.

:-)

Gotta love it.

- Herman the Kid

Casey:

hahaha didn't know you were a bill & ted fan! LOVE that movie!

-deputy van halen

Casey again: actually, i didn't know ANY WOMEN were a fan of that movie.

Megan: Seriously? I loved it when I was a kid, watched it lots. Now I just have a soft spot for Keanu.

Casey: soft spot for keanu you say? better put this on your x-mas list:

Casey again: i'm thinking here and can't come up with any female i've met who was enough of a bill & ted, ahem, connoisseur, to bust out with "herman the kid". which is either really impressive or really sad for you, i'm not exactly sure which.

Megan: Prolly sad. I'm okay with that. Maybe I'll add a line or two about my Bill & Ted appreciation to my online dating profile. Impress the fellas.

Casey: So, as I was walking back from Quiznos, the real depth/breadth of what you said here just occurred to me. This online dating thing, I mean, the "profile" thing, is this like a dating resume? This just struck me as so absurdly awesome! Your comment reminds me of somebody who is sick of their job and says, "well, guess it's time to update the ol' resume!" Haha! Rad. I almost want to sign up for this kind of thing just so that I can show up at a first date with a briefcase and hand the woman a copy of my "dating resume" just like a job interview, on nice, heavyweight paper, with bulleted items like, "adept flower purchaser," and, "high chick-flick tolerance". It'd be spectacular. And just like a real job interview, I could sit there and embellish all of my great qualities and totally just gloss over the negative stuff! And by the time she realizes that I can't actually live up to my resume, it'll be too late because she'll already have committed too much time/energy/money hiring me...er...dating me to just give up, so she'll give me chance after chance when I screw up!

Dear Jane Doe, a date with you sounds like an amazing opportunity. Objective: Acquire a long-term significant other through cunning and deception, and utilize my skills and experience to take utmost advantage of your mind, body, soul, and killer 50" HDTV home theater before you kick me out of your classy high-rise apartment.

Megan: I'm laughing so hard over here that tears--yes, TEARS--have welled up in my eyes. It started with the very first line, "So, as I was walking back from Quiznos..." This whole email thread is going up on my blog, and that's not a threat!

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I know that I should probably come up with my own original material, but what can I say? This was too entertaining and needed to be shared. Friend Casey gets lots of points for being the person in life who is making me laugh the most lately. This is no small accomplishment. I know a lot of funny people.

(Sorry if the formatting is off. Blogger isn't a fan of copying and pasting, it seems.)