Pun Wars

It began in the first days of living in the same house with Jess. Either she or I would start with a cheesy pun and we would begin bantering back and forth, punning on the same topic.

For example, fruit:
"You're a basket case."
"It stems from having you around so much."
"Be pre-peared to clean out the fridge."
"These things don't happen organically."
"I hope all of our conversations are this fruitful."
(This is a real excerpt from our text messages.)

And as a result, this is how I got the nickname "Grapechel." :)

We've gone through topics like the ocean, dogs, horses, eggs, cheese, and countless others that I can't even remember. It was from these wars that I realized (1) we are both very competitive and (2) we are both very witty.

1) We are both very competitive.
Pun wars would start late at night, right as we both were preparing for bed. Neither of us was willing to let the other have the last word, so we would stay up past our self-imposed curfew. After we managed to extricate ourselves and shut our respective doors, we would still be yelling puns through the paper-thin wall we share. The other would yell in response that she couldn't hear what was said. We would then move to texting each other from our respective rooms.

2) We are both very witty.
This is self-evident.

We are indeed a pair of cheesy buds.