geek freak

The fact that I am, in fact, a geek myself has nothing to do with this:

since childhood, I have had a deep affinity for those labelled as geeks, nerds, whatever; stemming from the time Gilbert Brodach asked me to dance in the 4th grade, it's been so.

The scene:
It's one of our class parties; everyone's brought a record to play, and we're dancing to these records. No one wanted to dance with Gilbert, 'cause, you know: the geek! Well, everyone cleared the dance floor and just stared when we started to dance because Gilbert *only knew one dance*: "The Soupy Sales Shuffle" (which I was completely familiar with, 'cause I was a geek & watched the show too; I just knew better than to think Soupy's dance qualified as a "real dance"). But anyway, Gilbert's flailing around, and everybody's looking at us, but I'm *daring* them to laugh. I started doing the same dance, but you know, better. We dance, alone on the dance floor, until it's time to go; and the payoff for me? the look on Gilbert's face.

Makes you wanna find the nearest geek and just kiss him!