I wonder if I was being tested
A few days back at work this dude came in with a return, I forget what it was, that’s not important anyways he had this Doctor Who shirt.
It was the TARDIS but it looked like it was painted in a sort of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
I said I liked his shirt.
But instead of the usual responses I was expecting, I got “Do you know what it is?”
Which I have never gotten before when I compliment someone’s geeky thing. People are usually really excited at the random recognition.
But this bespectacled skinny white dude asked if I knew what it was.
And geeky me said “Well it’s the TARDIS and it looks like it’s painted by Vincent Van Gogh but it’s weird because the thing on the bottom right corner says “Doctor Who and the Daleks” which is the Peter Cushing movie, but Vincent and the Doctor is New Who, so I wonder what that’s all about.”
I think I may have confused him with some aspect of my response because he didn’t seem to be able to come up with a proper response and so just went about his day.
So now I’m just wondering if he was doing that whole “testing to see if you’re a true fan” thing I hear happens a lot to women only, you know, I’m not a women but it’s probably assumed a black dude isn’t going to know or care about Who, and he got out-geeked by some part of my answer or something.