Nonfiction Book Reviews

I like to think of myself as a practical girl - not a girly-girl, but someone that both guys and gals can get along with.  I’m not into hair, nails, or make-up, and I love to play geeky games like World of Warcraft online.

But apparently there is more girly-girl in me than I realized, because I’m about to write a post that only the gals out there will understand.

I know that it’s the patron’s own business, and I really shouldn’t care, but there is this girl and guy who come into the library.  Every.  Single.  Day.  Always in the same time period too - between 9 and 11 in the morning.

Well, the curiosity part comes in because I cannot tell if they are boyfriend and girlfriend, or just friends, or brother and sister (or some other type of relationship I haven’t thought up yet).  Because they come in together, you’d normally think boyfriend/girlfriend, but the way they act towards each other makes me think that if they’re dating, they ought to break up and move on to greener pastures.

It isn’t that they’re rude to each other; it’s just that they simply don’t ever talk to one another.  They never touch each other, never even acknowledge each other’s presence.  There is an extreme lack of chemistry between them, which to me discounts the friendship option too.  If you’re “just friends” with someone, wouldn’t that mean that you would laugh and talk with them, and enjoy their company?  These two act like the other has got the plague or something.

On the other hand, they act strange for a brother and sister pair also.  Why do they always come together?  If I were living with a brother of mine, I can see myself spending some time with him, but not having a standing date with him, where we go to the library together every single day to use the computers.  It seems a bit extreme.  Why not ever come in with a friend instead?

They’re younger (probably between 18 - 20 years of age) and I can’t see them not having any other friends in the world.  But as of yet, I’ve never seen either of them with anyone else (or even talking to anyone else for that matter).

So they don’t act like boyfriend/girlfriend, “just friends,” or brother/sister.  What’s left?  I checked out their hands, and if they are married, they don’t wear wedding rings (which I’m hoping is correct - that extreme lack of chemistry would be an even bigger problem if they were married).

The dumbest part of all is that if I knew, I wouldn’t care anymore.  It isn’t that this knowledge will make a difference in my life.  If I found out tomorrow what their relationship is, I doubt I’d remember past next week that I’d ever even wondered about it (again, I have the attention span of a gerbil.  I’m not exaggerating here).

It’s just the simple fact that I don’t know, and can’t figure out a smooth way of asking, that is driving me crazy.  Anyone out there who can relate to this?  Surely I can’t be the only one with an overblown sense of curiosity about things that are not relevant to me in the slightest!

As I said, only women will understand this post.  Men, feel free to laugh at me all you want.  I still want to know.

Any ideas on a “subtle” way of asking?  I was once mistaken as my brother’s girlfriend in high school (eewwww!) so I don’t want to make that mistake with these two.

Don’t worry, I am already fully aware that I need to get a life.

Hava

PS Feel free to speculate in the comment section on what you think their relationship is.  I can’t make my mind up, so I’d love an outside perspective (or five).