Prompt: Facebook
A Fair Bet
Penny Lane sent a request using Café World.
Sheldon sighed in annoyance as he clicked the ignore button.
"Really Sheldon?"
He looked up from the computer screen to glare at Penny.
"Once again, you are invading my personal space Penny."
"Once again, you are ignoring my distress call."
He scoffed. "I don't see any threat of incoming danger to your person."
"The danger is Howard. I made a bet with him that if I could build a Lightning Stove before him then he wouldn't be able to make any more lewd comments for four months."
"I don't think he's ever lasted four months without any inappropriate innuendos."
"It'll be four months of bliss," she said happily.
"So what would be the outcome of you losing?"
She made a face. "I agreed to go out with him on a date of his choosing."
"So the prizes are one date vs. four months of sexual free comments? That hardly seems equal."
"It's equal enough for me. So can you help me, please? I just need one more neighbor to win."
"Penny, you know I don't have time for such nonsense."
"You don't have to play the damn game for forever. Just be my neighbor and send me the required part."
"Just think of the consequences should I win. No more disgusting comments about sex, me and sex or me, Howard and sex.
But if you let Howard win, he'll go on and on about the date. It could get nauseating," she added.
Now that she mentioned it, the prizes weren't so off balance.
"Very well then. I shall do my part in this game of yours. Never let it be said that Sheldon Lee Cooper ignored the pleas of a damsel in distress."
"I thought you said I wasn't in distress?"
"That was until you told me the consequences of you losing. I for one, pity any woman who is subjected to Howard's continuous innuendos."