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[nobodyman]

Back during the first week that the axons started ringing, I remember the dissapointment that I felt as we realized that our phone was not going to ring. I discovered a few days later that t reason why our payphone didn't ring was because the payphone direcory had an older number listed (metro phoenix was split into two area codes a few years back).

So, I called the number Melissa had been trying to call, to see if anyone picked up. Sure enough, the line picks up. Hmmm... no time to think of an explanation.

[TridenT]

[HitsHerMark]

[SuperJerms]

When J2 died my wife came home and asked me why I was so gloomy. Now, God bless her, she tolerates my dorkyness...but I still felt like a total tool trying to explain the whole thing for the first time in detail.

Poor girl. She's a trooper. There should be a family/friends of Beekeepers support group.

[CoffeeJedi]

my girlfriend's beginning to understand, we were shopping yesterday and passed a payphone JUST as it rang, i stopped dead in my tracks, she said "you'd better answer that... it might be Melissa"
of course there was noone on the line (how the PM's could pull THAT off, i'm not so sure), but it was cute that she immediatly thought of ILB for me

as for "embarrassing", well, i told the kid at the movie theater that i was playing an "internet scavenger hunt", tried to explain it all to him, but he never played Halo (he looked more like a Tony Hawk PS2 kinda guy) he did say "good luck, i hope you win" and i replied "well, i'm on a whole team of people, but thanks" didn't feel the need to explain that there was no "winning"

[RandMod6]

her retirement plan

[thunderclap8]

The few times I have actually attempted to explain the game to others, I got an almost identical response:

"Oh, that's kind of cool. Sounds really interesting actually. But not my kind of thing."

See everyone has an inner nerd/geek just anxiously waiting to get out. Most just have the good sense not to listen to it, unlike us

Of course I'll be the one laughing when we all get fantabulous prizes at the end of the game. right?


Thank God Pittsburgh has one (so far) other axon hunter for me to vent stuff about crazy AIs from the future to or I think I'd explode.

[daboking]

I had a couple of interesting experiences so far at axons...

1) in the 3rd week of axons, right after I left the waffle house that the phone was in, I went a stone's throw from there to get gas for my car. As I pulled up to the pump, (no kidding here) about 20-30 bees started flying all around my door to the point I thought it best not to get out of my car and so I went to find another gas station.

2) last week, at der waffle house, I am standing at the phone with headphones on my ears, digital camera in one hand, and a hand drawn map in the other when the glass door beside me opens and in walks a couple of officers. They stop for a second and look at me, looked at each other, and went on in to the waffle house to eat lunch.

[krystyn]

[Phaedra]

Embarrassing situations

[weephun]

Yah, after getting the entire staff of the local Pizza Hut and some of the staff at the DoubleTree Inn involved, along with trying to explain this to my family and in-laws (who were in town while I had to go answer a phone call from a reported asking questions about the phone calls I've been receiving from a futuristic AI as part of a game, yah, that one got some strang looks), I thought I had gotten over the "oh man, people are looking at me funny". But no, standing in the Kopper Kitchen lobby while Mad Cow got into his blue MC outfit and we took pictures while all the old people having lunch looked at us like we were insane still made me squirm.

[THe_Smakus]

I'm not the first beekeeper to drive large distances to get that one weekly axon. It's also rather unlikely that i'm the first beekeeper that's had car troubles. But it certainly does make for interesting conversation when one asks one's parents for the loan of a vehicle for axon hunting.

[atdt1991]

Fortunately, she's a self-proclaimed Geek Groupie

[Scarr]

My wife has asked never to speak of or mention ILB in her presence. She is extremely cool about all my other geeky endeavors. But this is beyond her level of tolerance

[ABoxInABox]

Trying to explain why you're looking at an odd site about bees that has bright green text, and some weird black box on it to your teachers and friends is no easy task. My school's network admin was convinced it was a new virus that destroyed a network and ordered a new version of Nortan Anti-Virus about five minutes after he saw it. Everyone else seems to except that it's a game, but look at me strangly whenever I mention anything remotley connected to bees, the future, or make a refrence to a queen (now that I've explained the basic storyline).