New touchstones

So its starting to appear that I might have a, “Type.”

It was probably best expressed by my roommate as saying, “Dude, your bedroom has seen more (Completely Legal) teenage boys in it than a freshman dorm at Georgia Tech.”

Seriously this is not my fault.

Last month I took the roommate’s black lab down to Piedmont Park because Jake and a great personality and everyone loves him. So I took him to the dog park and was walking around the park and this guy comes up and starts playing with Jake and talking with me. Comes up completely unprompted by me, it was completely random, I in no way sought him out.

So I can tell he’s young and I’m trying to get some more information about him and he tells me he’s in school, which I figured, but he starts going on about he’s going to be a senior next year and how cool that’s going to be. I bite the bullet and ask him he’s at Georgia Tech, cause he’s kinda nerdy like that, and he says the name of a West Cobb High School.

Seriously, the kid goes to a high school not far from where I live and was flirting with me. Mind you I think most people clock me as younger than my age, but I was like 15 when this kid was born and he’s flirting with me, which while kinda awesome, and completely legal in Georgia, is a bit weird and something that should be avoided.

So last week I was down at the gay Caribou Coffee in Midtown and I’m sitting next to a guy for an hour or so while we both do some work. We had a couple of exchanges and then we start talking a bit later and again I know he’s younger, so I start comparing him, in my mind to the younger guys at work. I figure he looks older than Daniel, whose 19, Robert who just turned 20, and older than Julian, whose also 20, so I’m somewhat hopeful that he’s a grad student at Georgia Tech, then he says his name and I start remembering this guy from an article we did at Southern Voice.

It wasn’t my story but I remembered him as being in high school and so I hopefully throw out, “So that makes you about 20 now right?” he laughed and then explained, “I turn 19 in two months.”

Seriously, I’m so not seeking these guys out. The one thing that is clear though is that I need to get a better set of touchstones of what 18 looks like because my younger friends look insanely young for their age.