Superglue Relationships
It's been a long night. You had a huge project due for your hardest class, and subsequently, you were forced to work on it on a Friday night! You are blindly stumbling back towards your dorm around 1am to try and get some sleep before you get up and continue the never-ending work. Suddenly South Patio comes into view and you shudder. Your timing could not be worse: it's the end of Intervisitation in the girls dorms, and over a dozen couples are standing in various corners of the patio, their bodies a twisting pretzel-like mesh of limbs. There is no avoiding them...the side doors are locked, and you know that you will only find the same thing at every other main entrance. You develop a sudden fascination for the ground in front of you, and accelerate to a power-walking pace until you have safely made it into the dormitory halls.
The Superglue Relationship. It's a pretty common occurrence here at GCC. You know the type. It's those couples that seem to have glued themselves to each other. Maybe there's a bomb between them that will go off if they separate more than a foot. Maybe they prefer being referred to as "BillandJane" instead of "Bill and Jane". Whatever their reasoning, these couples love PDA and will use every opportunity to display it (whether that be through sitting extremely close whispering to each other on the lobby couches, kissing by doors regardless of how many people are walking in & out of those doors, etc.). Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those bitter single people who hates seeing couples happy. I think being in love is a wonderful thing, and I am all for showing your affections to your love. But it is a matter of embarrassment to the rest of us! It seems as if everyone is embarrassed of their behavior except for the couple. I would think that they could have the decency to at least try to be subtle! In any case, my friend Emily and I have come up with the perfect solution. Armed with lawn chairs and popcorn, you will find us on South Patio one of these Intervis nights staring at and talking about these unabashed couples. If that doesn't discourage extreme PDA, I'm not sure what will! (okay, so we probably won't actually do that...but it is pretty funny to think about)