The "why is the rum gone" video from the pointless thread put me on a memory train.
Almost four years ago, I was with my first girlfriend, at a movie evening of her friend M. We were having a Pirates of the Carribean movie marathon with a sleepover. There were the two of us, the host M plus her boyfriend and C, a male friend of the group.
Eventually, M's BF left. There were four of us left, M started snuggling up to C, and when we were done watching the movies, everyone just quietly accepted me + my GF would sleep in the one room and M + C in the other.
Apparently, some heavy petting happened that night. (To his credit, he didn't brag *a lot* the following morning.)
We were younger, more confused and less mature back then. I also was somewhat attracted to M, and thought M + C would make a better couple than what M+her BF had. So I didn't say anything.
Nowadays, I'd have behaved differently. I think. I still had minor stings of conscience, so this led me to my first non-comic related post in this forum:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29639.msg1004946.html#msg1004946To the best of my knowledge, M is still with her boyfriend from back then. We don't have contact anymore.
The thing is, in the PotC movies, there are a few moments where you think Elizabeth might get together with Jack instead of Will. I thought the plot of the movies reflected what was going on in real life rather... mystically. There are the drunk almost-makeouts, the regret in the morning, the attraction to the "wrong" person... I am probably not making a lot of sense, am I.
I also learned a few things, maybe not that night, but in retrospect. Such as that the world isn't always black and white when it comes to relationships.
I also learned to trust the people judgment of a friend of mine, D, who had warned me about M prior to all of this. D was later bound to become my second relationship and is still my best friend. (Her people judgment has been confirmed many times since, but I think this is the first instance of it I remember.)
Eventually, D and me broke up after an argument we had while watching a movie.
That movie was PotC 1.
I also learned things about myself that night, which are rather difficult to put into words. I guess that I was not, in fact, such a paragon of virtue as I liked to think myself of as.
Also, in terms of experiences made that night: having M's parents' king size bed to ourselves was rather nice
Incidentally, Ankh, if you are reading this: M was (probably still is) a really charismatic girl, making the world spin around her. She was the main, if not the sole, inspiration for the post I made when discussing your Pinkie Pie Problem:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29624.msg1255216.html#msg1255216So I guess that experience of mine was helpful to somebody else as well, which is nice to know.