The Gordon Freeman Conversation

I am becoming particularly adept at the Gordon Freeman Conversation (GFC). The GFC is a conversation that you have where you say absolutely nothing and the other person does all the talking. Gordon is a character in a game called Halflife and Z introduced me to his “how to make friends and possibly kill them” style.

Gordon is the main dude in the game and doesn’t say a word. I started out slowly with the frau at the cake shop, just a few minutes, a nod here, a point at the cake there (they have chocolate bread here). Slowly I’ve been working my way up to my current record of 12 minutes and 11 seconds talking to the lady at the “worst pizza in the world shop”, she spoke I nodded or no nodded. On second thoughts that may be why it was the worst pizza. Anyway, she told us that there was a lake 15 minutes down the tram line that she swam at, she mentioned later that she got some kind of infection, so yeah, I’m up for a swim in infected city water. I used my GFC look of quizzical horror in reply to that one. Maybe I can tax deduct the trip by exploring the healthcare system from the inside. Tomorrow I’ll see if I can buy a car using nothing but the GFC.