long ago i had a very funny normie coworker at my awful walgreens job. our workplace dynamic was kind of like if squidward didnt hate spongebob. i hated the job and admired her ability to enjoy it, she loved it but understood why it made me miserable. we looked out for each other. there was a creepy old man who bothered her so i developed a code signal to deliver over the store speakers for her to take as a cue to hide in the freezer, she'd do her best to draw aggro from nasty customers. in hindsight i wish i kept up with her still, but i had a complex around having friendships with "normal" people even if they could meet my weird nerd shit halfway.
i am thinking about her because i suddenly remembered the one time i made her really mad because i pretended i thought stormtroopers from star wars were called "the star warriors." i insisted that they were who star wars was named after. she wasn't pissed that i was wrong, but pissed that she thought she lived in a world where she knew more about star wars than me.
