Inevitable

There comes a point in every relationship, where you have to introduce your friends & family to your lover. Or vice versa. And quite often, these introductions go hand-in-hand with a pre-meet briefing. You know, where you try to bring both parties up to speed on the other, so that the event can take place with minimal awkwardness and maximal avoidance of embarassing questions/comments.

When Jo met my friends from uni however, I felt there was very little briefing needed. They're an easy-going lot, polite and sociably well-adjusted, so there was little in the way of comfortable evening of acquaintance. I reassured Jo that while they are all passionate physicists, they are far from geeky and the evening would not be monopolised by abstract sciencey topics.

Barely TEN MINUTES through the door however, they're all gathered around one of my spray-paint attempts, discussing whether the equation I've sprayed upon it, is mathematically correct. Excitedly debating whether the "dimensions" were off or whether I've simply missed out a "summation over one of the indices".

Trust your friends to live down the geek label.