Reality disappoints

For the gamers, I began to make the following post on facebook quite some time ago, but it was too long for my facebook app to post as a status.  I saved it to my phone with the intention of making a blog post out of it, eventually:

I came across a vanity plate, that I find interesting.  "PWNER" what makes this tale even more epic was the car's location in a faculty/staff parking space on campus.  The initial contact, however, was unfortunate due to the fact that I had left my phone on the charger.  I know the rule, pics or it didn't happen.  Fortunately another spotting occurred, this time phone in hand (well in pocket).  I cannot help to be curious could pwner have some alternate meaning?  I sure hope not, that would detract from this experience.

Since the time that I wrote this excerpt there have been many more sitings.  I walk through the parking lot this car tends to park in almost every day.  I imagine some professor or some academic living like a mild mannered life like Clark Kent.  One where everyone assumes they are like any other responsible, intelligent individual.  However, when the work is done, a dark side emerges and they become a veritable force to be reckoned with.  Most likely pwning some noobs.

I actually had a marketing professor that was a gamer, she played WoW.  I never personally played that, although I thought it was interesting she played games at all, but it lacked the same kind of mystery of this individual.  She was pretty vocal about her gaming and if I recall correctly, I knew she was a gamer before I had her in class.  We once had a question (bonus for attendance) on an exam that was completely unrelated to marketing; she looked up (in class) a couple of gamer videos and from that derived a gaming vocabulary word that only those in attendance (or possibly hardcore gamers) would know for the exam.  But, I digress.

Every day I passed this car my imagination would run wild.  Hypothesizing who this professor or administrator might be.  What if it was someone I knew?  What if it was someone no one would expect!

A couple of days ago, I had the unfortunate opportunity of seeing the driver of the car entering his vehicle.  Total let down, I am not sure what he does to have a faculty permit, maybe an IT boy.  Maybe he is a grad student, if they can get N/P staff permits.  He might be mid-20s.  Totally lame and did not nearly live up to the hype (in my head).

Pwned.