I Phone Review

I didn't have much luck with girls in high school. I remember a few really awkward dates. I was a nerdy kid. I like math, science, and reading. At my school, those definitely weren't the popular things to do.

A few weeks ago, I was having some coffee with friends when I saw this beautiful girl across the coffee shop. She was engrossed in her iPhone. I imagined her texting her boyfriend. Then she noticed me and smiled.

She probably saw me staring. Embarrassed, I looked away quickly, pretending to scan the room. One of my friends noticed me entranced by this girl, and encouraged me to say something to her. My palms started sweating and I wanted to get out of there. Talking to girls is just not my thing.

It might seem weird, but I snapped a picture of her with my iPhone. She was looking out the window, and I pretended to be fooling with my phone. I was in line to get more coffee, and got a really great angle with awesome lighting.

Later, I caught the bus to go home. I couldn't stop thinking about her. She was just so beautiful. You know how beauty, especially a beautiful girl, can really inspire you? Well, I just wanted to express how I felt about her. I had this creative urge, so I opened up this new app I got called Comic Genie.

Comic Genie is a neat little app that puts talk bubbles in any picture. It's like in a comic strip. I had downloaded it, but I hadn't gotten a chance to use it. Now was the perfect opportunity! I opened up the picture from my library so I could make it into a nice comic.

I stared at the picture for a while. A beautiful ray of sunlight surrounded her face. It was such a nice photo! After looking at it for a good five minutes, thinking about this beautiful girl, I noticed something really neat. A little bird had perched on the windowsill to sit next to the object of my desire! The shot was perfect. I made the bird look like it was talking right at her.

I got a really great idea right at that moment. I double-tapped to add a talk bubble to the picture, and typed some speech. "I wish I could sit with you, pretty bird." It was corny, I know. But I was in a corny mood. What happened next could only be conceivable in this age of total connectedness.

I take a lot of photos with my iPhone, which is why I bought the Comic Genie app. I wanted to make the photos more interesting. I like being creative, so I thought I could add a personal touch. You know? I just like sending people stuff I made myself.

When I got home, I synced to my computer and downloaded the photos off of it. Then, out of habit, I uploaded all of the photos to Facebook. I was still in a dream-like state, and not really thinking. Who uploads photos of strangers to their Facebook?

The next day, I checked my email and noticed I had a new friend request. There's nothing abnormal in that, but I opened up the profile and I saw that it was the girl from the coffee shop! She said "Nice comic! You're the guy from the coffee shop with the iPhone, right?"

Really, I was confused. How did she find me? I started thinking of all the possibilities, then I remembered that I uploaded my photos to Facebook. I took a deep breath. I check out her profile, and saw that we did have a friend in common. It was Alex, who kind of knows everybody. He had recognized her in the comic and tagged her face. She was notified and there you go!

I didn't know what to do, so I just accepted the request. She must have been logged in, since she started a chat with me right away. To keep the story short, I'll just say that she like shooting photos which was a relief since I had taken one without permission, and she wanted to get together. She said I was cute. We met at the same coffee shop. She was curious to know how I made the comic. She thought maybe I used Photoshop, but I showed her Comic Genie and she bought it, too. We wound up staying at the coffee shop all day, making comics and showing them to each other. It was so wonderful!

So that's how I met Julie, he prettiest girl in the world!