Verb me! Verb me now!!

Tuesday, July 12, 1999

I've been caught. Jev was using my computer to surf, and he decided to take a look through my old bookmarks. I didn't say anything, but I suspected he'd probably stumble across the ones I bookmarked some time back (months, maybe a year or more ago) when I was trying to get myself over my shyness about sexuality.

Sure enough, he found the only bookmark of that bunch that was left (I've looked and I can't find the others, so either I hid them better, or I've deleted them), and so he teased me a little about it, and was reading some of the page (about dirty talk) out loud.

Part of the page reminded me of Mad Libs -- the party game where someone asks for a bunch of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on, and then uses them to fill in the blanks in a silly story -- in that there were sentences, with "noun" and "verb" and "adjective" in parentheses, where you were supposed to fill in the blank with the most suggestive word you were comfortable using. Jev was being silly, and just reading through them at first just using "noun" and "verb" and so on, wherever they turned up. So there were things like, "I want to make your (noun) (verb)." It was rather silly, and I was laughing so hard that I finally had to ask him to stop, when he said, "Verb me! Verb me now!!!"

After that, he started playing it straight, using innocuous words, instead of the suggestive ones that were meant to be used. "Verb me now!" became "Kiss me now!" and "I want to (verb) your (adjective) (noun)" became "I want to hold your soft hand." Even so, it was still pretty funny, and I was so stuffed from dinner that I was holding my sides for laughing so hard. Jev is so silly, he can almost always make me laugh, and that's one of the things I love about him. I just wish I hadn't eaten too much beforehand!