#weak attempt

It was one of those rare significant moments which one can recognise is going to be significant at the time. He remembered, later, talking far too much about whale penises (specifically the fact that they were called dorks and were 12 meters long) especially for a first meeting. His friend-to-be would later assure him that it was that moment they knew that here, amid the glazed-eyed, shiny-faced Young Believers, was somebody worth talking to.

They wpuld write down emails on a spare piece of paper, curling at the edges. He would end up keeping that paper as a memento of their meeting, their strange, awkward meeting.

They chatted off and on online, here and there, enough to fan the flames of a burgeoning friendship, and stir them into life.