Blog Love Omega Glee: Zero Point Zero (24 October 2012)

Walking on his way to pick up the latest Screed, Jake sees a car pull into a streetside parking space. The license plate reads, "0.0: I have better things to do then run pointlessly from place to place. I have a car, so I don't waste my time running."

Jake is amazed that all fit on a bumper sticker, but worries another driver would rearend the car trying to read it on the road.

A professional looking couple get out of the car arguing. She yells, "You don't know what it's like."

He says, "Yes, I do."

She says, "No, you don't."

He says, loudly, "Yes, I do."

She says, loudly, "No, you don't."

He says, even more loudly, "Yes, I do."

She says, even more loudly, "No, you don't."

He says, louder, "Yes, I do."

She says, louder, "No, you don't."

He says, loudest, "Yes, I do!"

She says, loudest, "No, you don't."

Jake is tempted to intervene by yelling "Yes, he does," taking the side of the male sex in solidarity, or, being chivalrous, yell "No, he doesn't," but, no doubt wisely, he keeps his mouth shut.

The couple walk around the corner and continue to volley back and forth like they're playing tennis, which incidentally has "love" has part of the score.

It means zero.

Jake follows, trying not to intrude on the spat, but curious as to what the man does or doesn't know what it is like.

The couple lower their voices as they approach a restaurant and duck within, but their dialogue continues.

"Ah, love," Jake thinks, finding the argument somewhat reminiscent of ones he's had with Francine.

He wonders if lovers know how childish they sound.

Hmm . . . he wonders if he and Francine sound like that to other people.

Why does love make people idiots?

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel.