Who the Hell Are You Talking To, Mr. Korn?

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Who the Hell Are You Talking To, Mr. Korn?

I was deep in the trenches of an all-out keyboard battle, locked in a heated debate over which version of Windows was the best. My fingers flew across the keys like a pianist on a caffeine overdose.

“Nah, bro, Windows XP was peak computing! Fight me!” I muttered at the screen.

“Who are you talking to?” came a voice from behind me.

I jumped so hard I nearly gave myself a second puberty. My girlfriend, standing in the doorway, arms crossed, looking at me like I was reenacting Shakespeare in my underwear.

“Nobody!” I blurted. “Just… uh, myself.”

She raised an eyebrow. “Uh-huh. And ‘bro’ is your new name now?”

I waved a dismissive hand at the screen. “It’s a forum debate. Very intense.”

She stepped closer. “Then why did you just yell, ‘Oh, you wanna go, you little keyboard warrior?!’ at an empty room?”

I paused. This was a fair question.

“You see,” I explained, adjusting my glasses I don’t even wear, “sometimes, when engaging in the sacred art of internet banter, one must embody the spirit of the argument.”

She looked at me like I had just explained that I eat my cereal with orange juice.

“...Okay, Mr. Korn.”

I frowned. “Why are you calling me Mr. Korn?”

“Because a second ago, you literally said, ‘Mr. Korn does not back down from a fight!’”

Oh. That explained a lot.

She smirked. “So, who’s Mr. Korn?”

I sighed, defeated. “It’s my online alias.”

Her smirk deepened. “Your what?”

I mumbled, “My online alias.”

She burst out laughing. “Wait, wait—so in some corner of the internet, there’s a dude named Mr. Korn aggressively defending Windows XP?”

I crossed my arms. “And winning.”

She shook her head, still giggling. “You need help.”

I turned back to my screen, muttering, “That’s what the Windows Vista fanboys said.”

And that was the day I lost all credibility as a normal human being.

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