the other day, my friend eric and i decided that we couldn't live without pork buns from a bakery in oakland. so that is exactly what we got when we got off BART (bay area rapid transit) and raced over to the bakery. he was a little disappointed that the price has gone up from 65 cents to 80 cents but i couldn't really complain. we stuffed our faces and then sadly got back up BART to go back to berkeley. in the short 20 minutes it took us to go back to school, we got into a conversation about pokemon.
now i think most of you can agree with me that pokemon would be super cool if it was made for adults. the idea of it is pretty intriguing and if you think about it. can you imagine a R-rated pokemon movie? how awesome would that be! (i digress)
anyways in the midst of our conversation, eric suddenly tells me that digimon came out before pokemon. and i immediately disagreed with him. as far as i remember, i clearly recall seeing pokemon on tv
WAY before i ever saw digimon. so we were arguing about this when all of a sudden a deep voice behind us goes "nah man...pokemon came out before digimon". we turned around to see who had spoken, and we see an older man (maybe around 40). he nods to us and goes "yup..it was pokemon". i was satisfied but eric clearly wasn't
eric: no, i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that digimon came out before pokemon
me: you researched pokemon?!!
stranger: i'm pretty sure it was pokemon first...but digimon was dope
me: ew noo...digimon was awful
eric: it wasn't that bad....
stranger: haha...better than the crap kids see on tv these days
and thus we began another conversation about how modern tv sucks. but it got me thinking about how easily conversations could be started if people took a chance. i mean who would have thought that pokemon could be a conversation starter!