January, 2010
Fry’s Electronics
Renton, Washington

Ryan stops to take a look at a display of 3D glasses, and a gentleman standing nearby strikes up a conversation. Texas twang, big moustache, bigger cowboy hat. He says, “I remember the first time I saw a 3D movie when I was just 11…or was I 12? It had snowed that day…no, that was a different day. I was 11.”

Forty-five minutes later, still talking, with little or no encouragement from Ryan, he’s somehow gotten on the topic of sex.
“You ever seen the Cistine Chapel? The Temptation of Adam and Eve?”
Ryan concedes that no, he has not seen it.
“Adam and Eve are there, and the serpent. Eve’s just reaching behind herself to get that forbidden fruit. Well, you take a look at that painting, and you tell me what Eve was doing before she went for the apple.”

“Whatever it was, it was kosher with God.”

With this, he walks away.