I was lying in bed next to Shari, my fiancΓ©e, waiting for her to finish reading something on her iPad so she could turn her attention to me.
"What's so interesting that it's delaying us making out?" I asked.
"I'm improving my mind," she said.
"Can't you improve it tomorrow?"
"It's an article called 'Ten questions to determine if your boyfriend is really bi.'"
"I'm not," I said. "So let's fuck."
"Well, let's see what the test says about that."
"Must we? And what if the test says I am bi? What then?"
"That will be so wonderful," she said.
"Explain."
"'Cause I have a fantasy of seeing you make out with another guy."
"So kinky! You constantly amaze me!"
"No more kinky than your fantasy of seeing me make out with another girl."
"Fair point," I said.
"So let's do the quiz."
"Can't we fuck first?"
"No. I first want to find out whether you're bi.'
I groaned.
"You get points for each answer," she said. "'Bi points,' the article calls them. We add them up and the total number of bi points determines whether you're bi."
"Go ahead," I said in a resigned way.
"Question 1. 'Have you ever been naked with another guy?'"
"That's easy," I said. "Many times in the showers at school after a soccer match."
"I'm not sure that counts," Shari said. "I think the question means being naked in private, like in your bedroom."
"You can't fiddle with the questions!" I said. "I'm sure the quiz was scientifically designed by renowned experts in human sexual psychology, so we have to take the questions exactly as they're written."
Shari made a pouty face. "Okay then, that's one bi point."
"How do I get any bi points at all for that answer? It doesn't show anything about me being bi!"
"Those are the rules, sweetie," she said. "We can't fiddle with them just because you don't want the test to show you're bi."
She kissed me on the cheek.
"Question 2. 'Have you ever looked at another guy's cock?'"
"Yes," I said. "In the showers after a soccer game."
"You looked? Why?"
"I saw other guys' cocks when they were naked in the showers. You only see something if you look at it, so it follows that I must have looked."
"Hmmm," she said. "I'm not so sure these questions are well-designed."
"We've got to follow the rules," I said.
"Well, the rules say that that's one more bi point."
"Question 3. 'Have you ever kissed a guy?'"
"Yes. I kissed David on the forehead when he scored the goal that won us the championship."
"That's boring," she said. "But you get one more bi point."
"Question 4. 'Have you ever dressed as a girl.'"
"Yes."
"When?"
"When I was five. My sister liked to dress me up as a girl."
She sighed. "Boring again. But two bi points."
"That's not fair! I was five!"
"The quiz doesn't have a statute of limitations, baby," she said.
"Question 5: 'When you get on a bus or subway car, do you check out the girls or the guys?'"
"The girls."
"Okay, that's minus one bi point."
"Only minus one? Doesn't that answer prove I'm not bi?"
"Not really. Social pressure might be making you check out the girls. Doesn't mean that you don't really want to check out the guys."
"But that sort of logic could make anyone bi."
"And anyone could be," she said. "That's why we're doing this quiz."
Her reply didn't seem persuasive, but I couldn't put my finger on the reason.
"Question 6. 'When you watch pornography, do you look at the girl or the guy?'"
"Both of course. You have to see what the guy is doing to her."
"One bi point then."
"How is that any bi points at all? You can hardly make the guy disappear when he's fucking the girl."
"Yes, I do see the problem, but one bi point nonetheless."