Wow, okay. Reading a whole relationship into that sort of interaction is way less reasonable, although now that I think about it a somewhat similar thing happened to Geordi La Forge once...
It’s not just way less reasonable, it’s depressing. I feel like a new drug was released and I’m watching multiple friends succumb to it.
Seeing people whose thoughts and opinions you used to respect turn into objectively insane people has been some of the worst times I’ve had since graduating during the Great Recession in terms of how stressful it’s been.
Including a very awkward followup when he met the person his was based on.