Remember my admission of being a geek? Of being just like the girl in this cartoon I posted? Well, it seems that my offspring is also a geek. I don’t know how it happened. My parents weren’t geeks, so there’s really no explanation for me. My son is excited about “pi” and getting to use it in geometry. He talks quickly and excitedly about using a compass to find the bisector of a line. What’s a mother to do? He’s enjoying chemistry problems that the other students complain about. I told him, “You know, you’re a geek.” He laughed, and said he knows worse. Worse? There’s worse? What happened? Where did I go wrong? How did a create a little me? Poor kid.

I swear geekiness isn’t inheritable. Can’t be. My mother can’t figure out how my sister and I turned out the way we did. She didn’t like school that much. She never got excited about math or science.

Can the geek be removed? There must be a school that can undo the geek. I haven’t found one yet though. It probably wouldn’t help me at all. Years from now I may have to apologize for the apparent “geek gene” that I passed on.

I just hope he doesn’t turn out like those boys in the cartoons. You know…the one who sniffs the girls or begs one to go out with him. Odd goods are just that. Perhaps I won’t have to worry about him getting some girl pregnant. I will just have to wonder what kind of girl will want such a geek.

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As a response to Mr. Fab’s comment, here are the definitions of geek, dork and nerd.