Friday finally came and Penny dropped Sheldon off at Cal Tech. Since Leonard was working late, Penny had taken it upon herself to take Sheldon to work for the remainder of the week. Penny had enjoyed their time in the mornings, spent it listening to music that Sheldon could hardly understand and his complaints about her check engine light were becoming comical. Comical to her, certainly a little more life or death to Sheldon. She was a little sad to know this was the last day she would be taking him to work. Next week Leonard was returning to his daytime schedule and her shifts at the Cheesecake Factory would be going back to normal as well. That sadness was tempered though by the fact that this evening she would be getting to meet George Cooper and would be seeing what all the hype was about. Penny found it difficult to believe that there was someone out there who was smarter than Sheldon. The fact that it was another Cooper was just mind boggling.

Sheldon knew something was amiss the moment he stepped into the physics building. There were far more people there than normal and as he got closer to his office he started to notice the crowd got thicker.

"What's going on?" He said to Raj who was already sitting at his desk. That was a little uncharacteristic of Raj, but Sheldon didn't really believe social protocol allowed for him to bring up criticism of Raj's punctuality this early in the morning.

"People found out about your brother coming to see you and the rumor got started that he would be here this morning." Raj said it, but never took his eyes off what he was texting to Howard while he said it.

"You know full well his flight lands at 6:45 pm and he won't be by the apartment until 8:00 pm." Sheldon quipped annoyed.

"How were we supposed to know that?" Howard said entering the room.

"I emailed you." Sheldon said to both men as if that answered everything.

Howard quickly looked through his emails and realized it came from Sheldon's home email address that he only used for personal business like his newsletter about flags and other stuff Howard just didn't want to read about. All of which meant that if an email comes from Sheldon's home email address it goes straight to Howard's junk folder.

Still looking at Raj and realizing that understanding wasn't coming Sheldon continued.

"I informed you, Leonard and Howard that we would have to have dinner later since I would need to be at the apartment to see George." Sheldon said while sitting down to his desk.

People were gathering outside the door and some were giving up the pretense of being there to see anything other than George Cooper. Heads of people starting popping around the door frame and the moans from Sheldon were becoming more audible. Howard decided that he should take matters into his hands before something set Sheldon off.

"He's not here. Flight won't be in for hours and so if he's coming it won't be until Monday." Howard boomed down the hall in his nasally voice reminiscent of his mother.