Nine words women use...

I tell people that don't know D&D that I hike.

Seems to work.

I make up more family members.

I've had some many occasions of those nine words being used.  Even in the short term relationships i get a lot of "whatever"'s.  Not that I'm particularly surprised.  My favorite combination is the conversation that starts with "nothing, everything's fine", then esculates to "sure, fine, whatever."

I tell people I spend a lot of time in the poconoes and if they persist I tell them I beat nerds with pipes in the woods.  And enjoy improv acting.  Eventually they find out i dress up in a stupid looking outfit and enjoy D&D.


-John

I find I am usually diplomatic enough (with people I care about) to avoid the nine words. It helps that I do grocery shop, clean, and cook. I am very family oriented. Also the wisdom of Tim Allen helps- "I have no opinion" 

I just say I am going to a friends house to party. I won't even mention this to people unless they start going on about WoW,  DnD or comic books.

Man, you guys need to get over the embarassment thing. If you love it, don't be ashamed of it. Is getting hammered in a bar a much more glorious way to describe what you do in a weekend?

My alltime favorite though is Judge and Matt G using their character names for the Star Ledger interview. I crack up every time I think of a quote from 'Akhillaious' and 'Garrison'.

I use the camping excuse at work, and have been ever since I started going.

However, it's always fun explaining injuries when I get back. Like after this past event, I came back completely sore with my knee cut open and a black eye. My manager freaked out and asked me what happened. I told her I was camping and that didn't cut it. So I just went with, "Uh, my friends and I played 'See who we can trip on the ice.' I lost." That pretty much worked.