glumshoe:

I was sitting with two of my campers this afternoon, giving them drawing tips and encouragement while I sketched. The boy was a few years younger than the girl (eight or nine to her eleven or twelve) and was trying very, very hard to impress her.

“You should come to my house later so I can show you this really cool Pokemon video game,” he said. “We can have a play-date! We can also listen to my music collection. It’s really good.”

“I think you and I probably have different tastes in music,” she replied, politely but cooly.

“My music is so good though!” he insisted.

“Oh yeah? What do you listen to?”

He beamed. “I have ALL the songs from Minecraft!”

The girl smiled patiently, and said, “I only listen to German death metal these days.”