Epic Rants

[Lord_Leperman]

This one happened in late 2007 or early 2008.

While entering Comic Quest in SM, a stereotypical looking nerd/otaku (overweight, thick glasses, tucked in polo, talked in a whinny accent, has no sense of tact at all) intercepted me and a friend at the entrance. We ignore him and proceed to the magazine section where he followed us, positions himself right beside my friend and started ranting to us about how "The Dark Knight" film isn't related to the comic book and proceeds to rant how the film's gonna suck and the producers are idiots for not using a different title, and how some novel of whatever related to Batman is better, etc. The guy assumes that everyone who steps inside Comic Quest is a Batman fan, and this person should be avoided at all cost.

Me and my friend awkwardly listen, becoming speechless because we had no idea. After a few more silent and awkward moments we silently move to the sale section in the hopes that he'll just stay away from us. This persistent person follows.

While browsing for whatever interests us, he positions himself behind me, overlooking my shoulder. I try not to mind him, but when a World Of Warcraft book suddenly appears out of the pile, he suddenly says the most fucked up pickup line to make friends:

*WoW book pops up*

Nerd: World of WHOREcraft...

Me and my friend ignore him, followed by another awkward moment of silence, he makes a followup.

Nerd: ... Get it?

At this point my friend had enough, so he rushes out of the store and I follow in disbelief with what happened to us. My friend was irritated, but I took it on a more positive note saying that we're in some game show like MTV's Boiling Points, where you have to survive an annoying person for 5 minutes to win some cash and I urged him to come back with me and see if there was a hidden camera crew in the store. Anyway, I don't enter the store anymore out of fear that the guy will assault me with more Batman trivia I am not interested in.