Times in the last few hours I've realized I'm weird He tells me he sells transformers→[More:]after we start talking at a hotel bar. I start talking about transformers--I wanna know all about them!--he's taken aback.

Much later, and drunker, I decide to talk about caps on wine bottles--cork vs. screw-tops. He finds it bizarre that I'm being enthusiastic about such a relatively offbeat issue, and says to the bartender that "one day we'll see him on TV inventing something related to storing wine."

And I'm thinking, it's not like I'm more interested in that than in what the weather is like. Apparently not all people are fascinated by the NPR-ish "let's insert ourselves into debates completely orthogonal to anything we've pondered before" deal. Pity!

he tells me come up to his room to continue drinking after the bar closes. I'm like no thanks.