Hello?
Hi!
Oh, hi!
How are you today?
A real person.
Yep
I'm well.
A real person
Really well. Got love 'em. I have the problem where I run into, like, five blanks in a row. I guess I just have to get lucky or something. Anyway.
Thats werid
I can't see your name? This is really odd. You look like a green dot to me. Did you register nameless, or is my laptop acting up?
Sometimes it does that, its just a glitch No worries
Oh, phew. Good to know. Might I have the pleasure of knowing your name, then? Lemme guess. It's not Adam. And it's not tryingtonap.
Haha I run into those users a lot too
Oh, really? It's kinda fun to see a familiar face. Er, name, I suppose. But I'm assuming you're neither of them.
Nope, should I tell you or do you keep wanting to guess
Wait, wait, wait, I can do this. Not MDCrew. Um . . . you're a boy, yes?
Yeah you got it MDcrew Yep
Wait, what? So you ARE MDcrew?
Yep
Haha, yes! I've been wanting to talk to you for ages.
Hahaha Hello again
Actually, I'm not sure we've talked before. Me and Adam got into this gigantic two-hour long conversation. Your name came up a couple of times. But I can't remember for the life of me why . . . Ah, well. I guess it wasn't that important. I just remember wanting to meet you because of it.
Oh, I guess it was a good thing? Haha
Always. How on earth did we get to your name? I have to remember. I think we were talking about boys and girls. About the ratios on here. Supposedly, it's 50/50. But since it's more geared towards techy people, it's closer to 70/30.
Really? Thats good that it reflects the population Oh
Haha, yeah.
I seem to run into more girls than guys, they always talk about their husbands
Haha, really? I've literally talked to two girls. tryintonap one of them. And the other . . . Eh, I'm sure she's around. Adam mentioned there was a girl in the top 5. But since that leaderboard's wiped out, I can't reference it. Oh! But, wait wait. You've actually talked to a lot of girls on here?
Seems like I do, or I only remember those because they always mention their husbands It was probably like one or two people
Fair enough, fair enough.
So what are you up to?
Currently? I fried some potatoes, but it didn't turn out very well, so I'm dipping them in mayonnaise and salt. Trying to salvage what little lunch there is. But! In my defense, I'd never fried potatoes like that before. They're all burnt on the outside and mushy in the middle. But with the stuff on top, it's eatable.
Haha I did that
Burned all your potatoes?
Our dorm oven cooks unevenly and I love potatoes I put them in to roast slices and like 3/4s in random spots all got charred They werent too bad with ketchup
My question, though, is how did I manage to ruin my potatoes on a pan? Half of them were cripsy, and the others were still undercooked. But it's a pan. A pan, for Pete's sake. I think I might be bad at cooking.
Hahaha thats hilarious
Hehe, I cut some slices so thin, they're closer to potatoes chips than anything else. Maybe I should make myself a sandwich or something.
Sandwiches are never a bad idea
But it's white bread . . . I don't like white bread . . . Haha, just kidding. I mean, it's not my favorite, but I'm not picky when it comes to food. Hence, you know, eating semi-burnt potatoes with mayo and salt.
What is your favorite kind of bread?
You know, I think it's wheat. It's basically what I grew up with. That's what "normal" bread is to me. So seeing this white stuff is a little trippy.
Really? I grew up with white bread, I almost despise wheat bread
That's so funny! Yeah, wheat is what bread means to me. Sorry, I know it's random, but have you seen Infinity War yet?
That sounds like it would be a book name, "wheat is what bread means to me" I have seen it
Haha. Did you like it?
Hm.. Yes and No
All right, give me the good news first.
I loved that they kept the marvel humor throughout, they did a fantastic job of blending so many stories I give them a lot of props for that
But?
You wanna hear the but? Its kinda petty
I do. Oh, please, we're on a chat site. C'mon. Gimme, gimme!
I dont like that it was action for two hours with no resolution Like i guess there was a resolution But I didnt like that they killed everyone. And the following show seems so predictable
The good guys will duke it out for a while, struggle a bit, but ultimately turn out victorious?
Well thanos (pardon my spelling because I have no clue) will likely regret killing his "daughter" and turn back time Dr Strange said it was the only way to give him the stone. And when he turns back time they will be able to do what they need to with everyone there to win At least that seems like what will happen to me
They wouldn't just turn back time after all that, right? I mean, that's rather anticlimactic.
Thats my bet Dont judge me, but it is like the ending to the twilight movie where all the action happened but it never really did
That weird bug is happening again where I can't read messages. Oh, wait wait, I'm back. Yes. I went to go check on my second batch of potatoes. Remember how the frying didn't go so well? About halfway through, since I didn't have more room on the pan and seeing how these were going, I said, "Lemme boil these ones."
Hahaha
Frying didn't go so well, but I could at least salvage the second potato.
Hows the boiling going?
I literally just burned every single potato in there.
HAHAHA
I don't even know how that happened!
I just laughed so hard I am sorry for your loss
The potato shall be mourned. I put on a lid, right? And I said, the water just has to be high enough to cook the potatoes entirely. So an inch or two, I thought. I'd already sliced them, intending to fry them, but they'd work boiled as well. And then I was like, I'll let it raise to boiling and just put on a lid.
You know the easiest way I cook potatoes is in the microwave
I might start doing that . . .
The microwave that I had, had a potato button
Wait, whaaat?
If they are the small kind it works well
Do you just throw a whole potato in there?
Yep I mean it is the little red ones, those taste the best in my opinion And they are easy to pack
I'll have to start nuking some little red potatoes, then. I'm sure there are some in the store somewhere.
When its cold I cook one or two in the morning and wrap it in foil and use it has a hand warmer Definitely
Wait, what? And that works? They DO call them hot potatoes.
Haha yeah It worked for me
Well, there you have it.
I always had a potato with me, all my friends know that I would end up eating it during class or somethig
How long do they stay warm?
Long enough for me to get to class until the day was warm, I just needed it to get me through the walk to campus
Ohhh, I getcha. Those morning walks are the worst on your hands. It's only ten minutes for me, but ten minutes is brutal without anything to keep your hands warm. Or they are for me, at least. Ah, great, the kitchen smells like burnt food now. You know, I guess it's my fault. I should've checked up on it sooner than half hour intervals. I might've seen that there was no water left in the pot. WHOOPS. Like, there's caked dirt on the inside.
Hahahahaha oh no
I'm afraid to check the underside of the potatoes . . .
Just ignore that that sides exists
But I have to clean it out SOME time. You know, actually, from the top, it doesn't look too bad.
Thats true Take the risk Live a little Go on an adventure Discover whats on the other side of that potato!
Haha. YES. Some of them lived. My only concern is that potatoes shouldn't be able to turn that brown in water. Boiling oil? I can see that. But's that's really dark for just boiling potatoes . . . In water, I mean.
That is weird that it would change so much color, I would guess it would get lighter
Hmm. Well. Time to test one out.
Let me know how it goes If you dont make it Ill write a eulogy for you
Yeaaaah, so, I picked up one up, said, "Doesn't look to bad," then noticed how much dirt there was floating around in the water and said NOPe. Not gonna happen, nuh-uh. So sad. I'll have to drain an entire potato. Also, I was certain I'd washed the potato well enough. Apparently not.
This is hilarious from my sad Potatoes are basically dirt They are just compacted dirts They are never clean You just accept you eat delicious dirt
"Children! Come eat your dirts today." No, but, really, I'm wildly amused by this all. I'm not usually this bad at cooking. So burning TWO dishes in a day? It makes me laugh.
You are on a roll Go for 3
Now I just gotta burn some oranges. They said it couldn't be done, but I WILL SHOW THEM WRONG.
What if the oranges end up burning you?
Oh, gosh, the squash. If the oranges end up burning me, I probably deserve it. I was cleaning out my fridge earlier. Like a good, responsible person would do. I don't like to touch some food because I don't know if someone else is using it for something. But there was something wrapped in tinfoil. It'd sat there for . . . I dunno, a long time now. If you looked over the top, you could see it was a squash. Except there were some cuts into the squash, and those cuts were covered in white fuzz. So I said, "Yeah, that's gotta go."
Hahahaha
I tried to grab it underneath by the wrapped tinfoil, but it was liquid. Liquid. I could barely hold it without it dripping.
Yeah if its fuzzy I dont care whose it is, It has to go NO
Exactly.
IT DID NOT
It did!
Thats terrible Burn it down
I tried holding it, and I'm like, "Ewwww, this is bad." It left a pile of, um, squash juice in its place. And after that, I threw out what I can only assume were beets. Fuzzy beets.
hahaha fuzzy beets
Sounds like some sort of dubstep.
It really does Whats the worse thing that you found in a fridge
Ooooo, I like this game. How about, what's the worst thing I found in a fridge and still ate?
Oh snap We are getting real
Mhmm. There was one time we found ice cream. We weren't even sure where it came from. We hadn't had ice cream in years. But we figured, hey, it's ice cream. If it's stuck in the freezer, it won't go bad. So we pulled it out, and I think it was . . . oh, I don't remember, but it expired back in 2007 or 2008.
Valid assumption
Totally valid.
I gagged
BUT. We were still, "Is this still good?" We opened it, and it was . . . I think it was strawberry. I hope it was strawberry. It was pink, anyway. Freezer-burned around the edges. All of us said, "Nope, that's not good." EXCEPT my dad. He got out a plate and started chipping out the ice cream. It was cemented to the sides or something. I'm not at all sure how he got it out, but he did. And when he poked it with a fork, it jiggled like jello does. Except it was a little more slimy. Imagine cornstarch mixed with water, I suppose.
NO IT DID NOT
It totally did. So, get this, he takes his fork and he peels back the slimy outside. It was so weird. But, right there in the middle, was regular ice cream. All he had to do was remove the slightly jiggly and semi-liquid exterior. And he said, "Look! It's still good." And he ATE it.
I cant
He left the slime on the plate. Didn't touch it.
Did it run away?
Not to my knowledge. We threw it away immediately afterwards and never looked back. Moral of the story: ice cream can go bad. But peeling off the slime will reveal edible ice cream.
I would have never guessed
What about you? Any marvelous adventures with a fridge?
I mean in comparison nothing that exciting
All right, fine. What about just regular awful food? Food that made you say, "Ohhhh, that shouldn't be humanly possible."
Hmm That is hard to think I block these memories out of my mind So right now I am drawing a hard blank
Well, I don't blame you. It's probably a good survival tactic or something.
The grossest thing that was too bad to block out was a stomach soup
A soup made from stomache? Curses, google. Stomach should totally be spelled with an e.
Hahahaha it had stomach, fish, and bunch of other random things I stopped asking what they were
Did it make you sick?
I was about to hurl, but I was a guest in someones home and I could not let myself do that
Well, I'm sure they thanked you for a hurled-free floor.
I hope so
Okay, okay, I know it's random again, but I have the best topic that almost always makes people uncomfortable.
what is it?
I asked Adam, and it's now one of two topics we won't discuss. Duh, duh-duh: dating stories. Bwahahahaha. But, seriously, I love hearing what it's like from a guy's perspective.
I am the worst at dating Do you just want to hear the bad stories?
Oh, please, you can't be THAT bad.
Because thats like all of them
Anything you have to give. Yesssss. I'm game. Lemme have 'em!
So I am just an awkward person, I dont know why people like me. But they seem to like me nonetheless Because girls ask me out quite frequently And I am not going to be rude and say no, but I dont take much initiative in dating because I am just not feeling that right now But anyways homegirl asked me out and I went and then she asked me out again that same week so I went
And?
And we went to a board game place and I thought we were done from there but she wanted to see a movie So we went back to her place And she turned out all the lights (which made me uncomfortable) and I made sure to sit almost a foot away on the couch And I was really enjoying the movie, then I realized her leg was touching mine and she was right next to me about to grab my hand Im too awkward for that so I panicked and left
How long had you known her?
she was my TA, so for a semester. She asked me once the class was over I am the worst  I know
I approve of all of this. Do you have more?
I have tons of stories about my awkwardness and girls
Yessss. Keep going, please, and I'll tell you a little about my history in dating. But my curiosity knows no bounds. And, really, I love hearing others' perspectives.
So when I got home from my mission, three girls asked me out in one week One was from california and she messaged me and was like "so when you come back to visit me, can we go on a date?" I had never talked to this girl before
Whoa.
I dont know where that confidence came from Anyways that was awkwardness sent from accross the country
Girls seem to ask you out a lot.
I dont understand why
It's probably because you're a good person.
Another asked me out, and I went along with that then I found out she was 4 years younger. She had graduated way early and was in college so I didnt know because she didnt look that young
Wow. 4 years isn't too crazy, though, right? I mean, it's a bit much, but not . . . insane?
I mean later in life it isnt But she was the same age as some of my friends younger sisters That was werid and she wanted to get married
Okay, yeah, that's weird.
so i stopped talking to her
Aaaand, that's also weird. How were you then?
how old was i?
Yup.
I was 20
Ohhhhh. She was 16?
Yep
Ooookay, that's really weird. I take back what I said earlier.
Yeah, later in life its fine not now
No kidding.
defintely not now
She wanted to marry you?
Yeah Im not there yet
At 16?
Yeah I am a child still
Yeah, there's no way I could marry right now. Have you had girlfriends, though?
No, Ive gone on dates but never had a girlfriend
Have you wanted a girlfriend?
Occasionally but really right now ( I know this is a terrible reason) it costs too much money and takes too much time
No, I don't blame you.
And I am sort of waiting for someone but not really I dont really know
If I may ask, what's the point of a relationship if you're not somewhat intending marriage? Obviously you wouldn't date someone you know for sure you'd never marry.
I dont think it has one, that is a big reason why I dont seriously date, because I am not ready for marriage
Okay, that's what I'd thought.
What about you, do you have any  crazy stories
Well, sort of. Nothing "crazy" by most people's standards.
But you are a good story teller So I am sure they are great
Well, you might get a kick out of them, then. So, if you haven't already picked up on this, I'm a girl.
check
I'm hoping that was obvious. Perfect. Secondly, I'm 18. Thirdly, I came from a high school where For the Strength of Youth standards were enforced. Particularly the dating section.
really?
We were encouraged to go on informal dates--the whole casual group dating thing--but never to go steady. Yup! Trust me, high schools like those exist.
That is insane Not insane but my highschool was the polar opposite
I hear a lot people's were like that. I was lucky to go to mine. People followed the honor code so well (or at least kept their offenses so secret) that I never saw a couple holding hands till BYU. It kinda freaked me out, to be honest. The worst gossip I heard at my school was that two people might have kissed.
Oh my
So, that's basically how I grew up: Dating in steady relationships is something to be avoided until you're doing with high school. I know, right? That's some insidious stuff. *done, not doing And I don't know if everyone was like this, but I didn't have a my first crush on a guy until midway through my senior year. It lasted for a few days, then took several weeks to peter out entirely. I really, really hated it. Like, there aren't words to describe it. He was a smart guy, and I loved to have conversations with him--he'd be the sort to hold really deep discussions--and I now had to avoid him. I was happy it was basically over after a few days. Because, man, I couldn't stand to be in the same room with him for that time. I would run and bolt if I saw him coming.
Bahahahaha
Seriously, it was the worst thing ever. Well, fast forward a few months, and there's only a few weeks left before the school year ends. And, suddenly, I have my second crush: one of my best friends.
Oh no
And I REALLY hated that one. Because I couldn't just run and ditch him. We usually sat next to each other in class, and I couldn't suddenly stop talking to him.
Yeah you are stuck with that one
Exactly. For some reason, unlike my first one, this one flicker on and off. Some days, it'd be, "Phew. Okay, okay, everything's normal. Took long enough." And other days, it's be, "Why on earth do I have to go through this torture?" I don't really remember how it happened, but some time later after I'd noticed, him and I were texting. And I think it was something like 2:00 in the morning. And I still don't know how we pulled it off, but we somehow both admitted to each other that we liked each other as more than friends. But without really . . . flat out admitting it? I dunno. Somehow, we both understood what we were saying. And I was like, "Well." "This sucks." I was 17 at the time, and so was he. Neither of us had liked someone as more than a friend and had that same person reciprocate.
Wow New experiences
Yeah, man. Words cannot describe how awful it was. He was pretty chill about it. Said it was a natural part of life and whatnot. We both knew we weren't allowed to date, and, frankly, neither of us wanted to. We'd seen how some friendships were ruined from dating. And we were fine as friends.
Did it ever go anywhere
But whereas HE was okay feeling like that, I was on the opposite side of the planet saying, "Nuh-uh, ain't NEVER gonna happen?" Did it ever go anywhere? Well . . . I think we held a few times in the dark when I was dropping him off. It was just me and him in the car, see.
Hahaha
Sorry, held hands. Sometimes I blank words. Derp, typing. But those first few weeks, I told him almost every day how much I despised it all. Literally, to his face, "I don't think I've ever hated something more in my life than feeling attract to you." And he'd say, "It's not a BAD thing, you know." And I'd say, "I still really, really hate it." Ah, such a good friend. He said it felt nice--not the me saying I hated it part--but, to this day, I've never felt more internally split.
He sounds like a good friend
Yeah, he was.
Do you keep up with him?
Yeah. We write weekly. Or . . . I do, at least. He's not the best with missionary emails.
Hahaha Dont blame him, its quite hard to keep up
Luckily, by the time he went on a mission, any sort of attraction was completely gone from both ends.
Especially when there are time limits Thats good
Yeah, I don't blame him. Trust me, I wouldn't write if I thought I'd distract him. But, yeaaaah, those were fun times. We stay up texting till, like, 4:00 in the morning. And because it was summer, we could do it almost every night. We'd talk until he fell asleep. I was never the first to sleep. I'm a bit of a chatter, if you can't tell.
I couldnt not at all
Uh-huh.
Haha just kidding
I know.
You wanna hear another awkward story
Yessss.
So I served in California and then my friend from home got called to the same place We grew up together We went to prom together and we were dance partners talk about awkward places you cant talk about feelings
Did you think about her during your mission?
haha Well I had a feeling someone I knew would come to the same place and all the guys got called to other places so I forgot about it then she got called and I flipped out after I went home she emailed me and asked to date when she gets home
Did you?
She is still out :)
Oh. Will you?
Probably She gets home in 6 weeks We have had on and off crushes on each other forever now
I wonder. Does having a crush for a guy feel different? Than a girl, I mean.
Maybe But if they are different I think they will probably be very different
You think they'd be very different?
I meant to say similar not different my bad
Oh, gotcha. I'll be honest, I'm not looking forward to when I feel that way again. It hasn't happened since him, and I'm hoping it won't happen for at least a few more years. Two crushes total in my life, both of which went away either within weeks or months.
Hahaha when it hits again it will be a flood like the river of feeling crashing over you
Nooooo. No, I refuse.
Its gonna happen
Nope.
Yep
I like being in charge of my emotions, thank you very much.
Ill put a high five as a bet for it
Not gonna happen. It will not "hit me like a truck" as my best friend is so fond of saying.
Hahaha How do you think it will happen
Er . . . gradually?
lol I just loled
You have loled. And when Alexa goes to pronounce that, she will say, "lol ed."
It will be glorious there was no better way to describe my emotion
I see. You seem skeptical of my response.
Slightly
But only slightly.
Really only slightly
All I'm saying is, I see no reason for it to hit me all at once. I wouldn't enjoy it at all, and it'd be more annoying than anything else. And I certainly wouldn't want it to happen unless it was for a guy I at least wanted to marry. And! I won't even be up for marrying until after my mission, if I decide to go. I'd make an exception if God said I needed to marry before, but other than that, it's not happening. And, hey, up until this point, I've done pretty well. Lots of guy friends, but nothing more than friendships between them.
Thats good I want friends they want dates neither ends up happy
Do you know why people are so antsy to date? Or is that just my perspective? It might just be my perspective. I know there are a lot of people that root for romance--it's called a "chick flick," my friend--but I was never in that category.
Hm
I dunno. Your thoughts?
My roommates would go on a date like every night I think it just depends on the person Because another one was on a "date fast" Then a month later he got engaged
Wow. A "date fast" as in "date super fast to meet as many girls as possible"?
No he was fed up with dating so he wasnt Then there was a dance with live jazz and he wanted to go just for the jazz so he asked someone now they are getting married
That's crazy.
Right?
Yeah.
I cant with that
How long would you have to know someone before you'd marry her?
Atleast 2 years Before I would consider it
That's a while.
I cant think of marrying someone without knowing them as a person Like I would need to know how they became who they are
Do you think some people jump into marriage too quickly?
Oh yes
Why?
They think they need to there is social pressure and people judge it off the attraction feeling and they dont wait to see if they really are compatible I think you need time to work those things out
Is it really possible to fall for someone you don't know? I know it happens in movies. And books and whatnot. But real life? It doesn't happen like that, right?
I think people confuse attraction for falling for someone
Explain it to me, then.
Like being attracted to someone is a really strong feeling But there is another strong feeling that should come when you still love someone with all their flaws and in moments when they are weak and not "perfect" where you can see their flaws but still care about them
I hear that, over time, the "spark" newlyweds feel goes away.
Yeah
Is that a bad thing? Why does that happen?
Its a bad thing if there is no other connection, usually when people rush into things Its when all the infatuation fades away Atleast that is what I think and have observed
How can you be infatuated with someone you don't really know? I mean, I have heard of the whole love at first sight thing. But, I dunno, I have a hard time believing that's a real thing.
I think it depends on the person
I like to think if I randomly strolled into a room one day and suddenly felt this gigantic attraction to a guy, I wouldn't do something dumb. I suppose my kind of person isn't to rush into things? I mean, emotions are fickle. That sort of attraction is just another emotion to me.
Yeah everyone is different so I think it just depends on how a person themselves react
Hence why you'd wait about two years.
Yep I am sure someone else could figure it out faster
I still remember my friend. We all came from that same high school. And within three weeks of her going to BYU-I, she had a boyfriend. It was really strange.
impressive
Well, it really struck me. I didn't know what to think of it at all. I ended up meeting him. Nice guy, I suppose, but they broke up before the semester ended. She said that'd he'd said he wanted to marry her. She said, "Whooooa, hold on there. I wanna serve a mission." Apparently, after one month, he said she was the one. Within a few weeks of their breakup, he found another girlfriend. My friend was upset because she was taking 8 classes, and he was demanding she spend time with him around finals week. She didn't have time, and he'd say she wasn't committed to the relationship. Anyway, long story short, she was happy she left.
Thats good that she ended up happy
Yeah. I don't think they left on very good terms, though. Not exactly the best of friends any more.
Thats too bad
But it's funny. Now I can come to her for dating advice. And she'll say, "KJ, I've literally only dated one person." And I'll say, "That's one more than I've dated!" Ooookay, I think their servers are lagging or something. I can't see any messages. Neither yours nor mine. If you're responding, I can't tell.
Hm Can you see this
And I can't tell if you're seeing these.
I am guessing you arnt seeing this
Last time this happened, the other person could read them just fine.
I can read yours
And it came back automatically.
its all realtime
Well. This is fun. I'm pretending I'm still talking to you. Because I genuinely can't see anything.
NOOOO I am here
For all I know, I'm typing responses to an empty bar that erases it once I hit enter.
Gosh dangit
Well.
....... I see everything I am replying Can you see this Now
Hmm.
How about Now? This is silly Why does this always happen
Well, since I can't seem to do anything--lovely little chat server this is--I think I'll end it soon. It lasted a good 2 and a half hours! I mean, that's not bad at all.
It was good talking to you I had a lot of fun