A Scientific Love Affair

At the beginning of the evening Jill, a bright eyed and naive college student, had wanted to discuss radiocarbon dating and the scientific problems with it…however, Larry, an elderly, gotee wearing professor had wanted to discuss a much different sort of dating. So it was that Larry had begun expounding on his own greatness…and all the advantages of dating him. However, as old as Larry was, Jill suspected that she would need to use radiocarbon dating to properly date him. And…sadly, dating ancient fossils was often full of challenges…”Another cup of coffee?” Jill looked up at the handsome waiter as if searching for a way of escape. “No.” Was the only word her weary brain could force out of her mouth. Clearly disappointed, the waiter humbly returned to sweeping the floor. Jill shifted in her seat. After about an hour of listening to Larry’s important lecture…Jill had begun to realize an important truth…that the people who are actually important don’t have time to sit for hours and talk about how important they are…and perhaps, just perhaps, being self important wasn’t exactly the same as actually being important. As Larry droned on…Jill stood, preparing to leave the wretched campus coffee shop. Completely self absorbed, Larry continued to expound on his theory of how their life together would work…according to him, it would be a relationship evolving from a germ, a tiny thought, becoming greater and better with time…Jill stifled a laugh…if this was Larry’s idea of a scientific dating method, it wasn’t working very well. There was a missing link in Larry’s theory…namely, any link with reality…With that, Jill began to stride toward the exit and freedom…only to be swept off her feet by the waiter…who wasn’t watching where he was waving his broom…as Jill lay there on the floor…looking up into the sparkling blue eyes of the young waiter, her feet entangled in his broom… she suddenly realized that she had fallen for the right man…
