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A Wealth of Geekiness
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A Wealth of Geekiness
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Jared was bored, and no matter what he tried to do, it was just not exciting. He went out with his friends, and he blogged about it. He played games with his girlfriend Allison, and he blogged about that. He went to work, but thankfully he never blogged about it. In an effort to spice things up, he decided to go sky diving. Allison refused to go, so he went alone. His instructor was a cute girl, and he rather enjoyed his first tandem jump with her. He had a blast and went home to blog about it. He even gave Allison some extra attention that night. Jared became bored again the next day. Nothing in the house could hold his interest for more than ten minutes, if that long. He decided to go sky diving again, but this time they made him jump alone. Even if he had jumped tandem, the instructor was a big, burly man with a ZZ Top Beard. He did not get the same thrill from it, but it alleviated his boredom for a while again. He blogged about it, and Allison certainly enjoyed the new found attention. The next day, Jared was once again bored. He decided to try bungee jumping, and again, Allison wouldn’t go with him. He found lots of cute girls there and enjoyed the trip far more than the sky diving. He blogged about it more, and he was more attentive to Allison than ever. When he came down from the bungee jumping, Jared went out again to cure his boredom. This time, Allison secretly followed him to see what was making him so happy. She found him flirting and carrying on with half a dozen girls then did his jump. The girls all swooned over him. Allison was furious, but she reined in her anger and went home to wait for Jared. That night, she told Jared she wanted to try sky diving with him. He naturally agreed, as that would help cure his boredom for the next day. The next day, they went out for the sky diving lesson. When it came to time to jump, Allison got scared and refused to jump. Jared did not jump because she would not. The instructor jumped with the other students, leaving the couple in the plane. On the way back to the airport, Jared and Allison discussed the events surrounding Jared’s boredom. They discovered that the cure for Jared’s boredom was not death defying acts and the attention of girls. He just wanted to go out and do things with Allison.  Tags: #fridayflash, Allison, boredom, bungee jumping, cheating, Flash Fiction, going out, Jared, relationship, short story, sky diving, solving problems
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Posted on 07:43, February 5th, 2010 by 
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Awww, he just wanted to share all of life's moments with his love. Hope Allison wises up to that and stops saying no.
You haven't been here for a while, and it's really great to be able to read your stories again.
I am glad to be back in this, and I'll hopefully keep up my rhythm. This #FridayFlash February Challenge is rougher than I thought. It may only end up being like 50-100 "pages" worth of text, but the multitude of topics makes it tough.
Hopefully, you will be able to read stories all year
You tone had a neat fable feeling to it.
I enjoyed the irony of how for something to be interesting to Jared he needs to blog about it. He seems quite insecure.
An interesting tone, almost bored-like feel giving us a sense of Jared's state.
Hopefully she'll wise up and do more stuff with him. Or at least let him go out and flirt with girls–as long as he comes back to her.
this piece does have interesting tone.
We’ll be reading more often then??
Agreed that this has a fable-feel about it. All that blogging, heh… Glad the two figured out his boredom problem!
Very much a fable feel as others have said…. but I suspect most would prefer the company of cute girls as a break from the girlfriend every so often
Awww… just in time for Valentine's Day. Nice work!