Today I wore my BlizzCon08 shirt to work today, over a long sleeved shirt. I got through the first class without incident, and I went up to the teacher and he said
Mr. S: By the way, Mrs. M (the other teacher I work under), her husband plays that game. He gets together with friends and they like…play. WoW right?
Me: Oh! Yeah. Does she play too?
Mr. S: Nooooo noooo…she…..she hates it. It’s the bane of her existence.
Me: Ooooh haha…I know how she feels…
Later on, in the second class, this kid goes
Kid: OMG you went to BlizzCon too?! What, what do you have?
Me: oh…..<sheepish> a priest…
Kid: I’m Undead Warlock! Dude! <calls out to other kid> She plays WoW!
Other kid: What?
<unintelligible shoutings back and forth of I don’t know what but it had something to do with the armory…and the fact that Kid1 was still level 72, and he was denying it…>
Then, I went to Mrs. M’s class
Mrs. M: Do you play World of Warcraft?……
Me: Yes…
Mrs. M: I’m a WoW widow…….okay???? It’s…..it’s just….wow. I catch him sneaking around to play that game…he gets together with his friends, because they work at Blizzard…
Me: >_<
Girl: ooh my brother plays too, he used to play Everquest also…
I think if you got all the WoW players together, they would be a small country…like Sweden or something. That might have changed since last year by now though. A little bigger. Soon, nobody will do anything but play in the alternate reality of WoW. Raiding is a full-time job and we’ll be fed by tubes in our chairs. And conflicts between countries will be resolved by 5-man arenas.
