Did I Sign Up For Video Games?

There we were. Playing video games.

And by "we" I mean him. I drove 40 minutes to watch him play the same video game he has played (and beaten) so many countless times. Forty minutes to watch something I could care less about.

Maybe I'm the ridiculous one. We did hang out and talk earlier, we did watch a movie, we did eventually go and get dinner. He only probably played the game for about 45 minutes. But still. Video games? On a date? Is it just me?

Common interests are so important, it can't be stressed enough. I know there's the whole "opposites attract" theory and maybe I'm just being picky... but I don't think the one night you've gotten to see me all week classifies as a good time to pick up the controller and go to war against evil terrorists in your favorite virtual world.

Then again, guns are part of his obsession. Another common interest I don't share.

But how much does it really matter? Part of me keeps hoping it doesn't, but part of me knows better.

I guess the question I'm asking -- is how different is too different?

Guess it depends on the differences and the people willing to look (or not look) past them.