Leonard: "Once I found a stash of contracts under his bed. It was weird."
Sheldon has never done something without writing down a chart, a flow or a contract. Basically he had always a draft of paper for every situation came along, even for a suddenly rise to power of intelligent dogs that would fold the human race.
Draw up contracts was his favorite pastime since kindergarten... he loved to follow established rules, but still loved to draw more and more new rules, restrictive and binding, rules gave order to his life.
Draw up contracts was not simple, requiring time, it was necessary to evaluate not only the rules to be respected but also punishments for infringements, it was necessary that the rules could not be in any way misinterpreted.
He draw up contracts basically for protect his scientific discoveries during study break, which was an easy way to escape from social convention like made new friends or interact with his brothers.
Relieved for obtain a prestigious position at the Caltech University he started draw up contracts for future inevitable office interactions.
The most difficult and challenging contract, to which he devoted more time, it was definitely the contract between roommates, was needed to Sheldon indemnify and avoid making a deal with a person unreliable, his first thought was to protect themselves and protect his apartment.
After countless talks failed to find a roommate, he met dr. Hofstadter.
In the contract between roommates he had planned everything, fire prevention exercises, the chance to build a time machine, visits from relatives during the holidays but had not foreseen any possibility that any roommate could bring home a girl.
Leonard and the guys did not have much luck with ladies and in Sheldon and Leonard 's apartment had never entered a girl, but one day Leonard fell in love at first sight of Penny. He already had a strange relationship with Leslie but basically Sheldon had not to worry so much about who entered in the Leonard's bedroom but how to organize the bathroom table, the refrigerator management and schedules for watching television.
Penny was not able to follow those simple rules of good neighborly, and few Leonard 's girls had not even the time to read the entire agreement during the short time they had been together.
All the time that Leonard had a girl Sheldon not even had time to draw up an amendment to a section on the unexpected guests for dinner.
Penny least, with her ups and downs, was the only with whom Leonard had spent more than a few days, so Sheldon decided to draft a regulation for offenses falling under the neighborhood Penny endorsement rather than as a girl Leonard takes home.
He had drafts of drafts to try to limit unexpected Leonard's nocturnal activities and especially to avoid unpleasant encounters with unknown girls in the morning in a bathrobe or worse even undressed.
Evaluating a sort of stability between Leonard and Penny Sheldon was ready for amendments about the presence of Penny in the apartment increasingly assiduous, but a sudden breakage not only made all the work but also the yields unavailable for the future, given the simplicity of Penny, he had settled elementary rules and mostly on hygiene respect and on the apartment quiet.
But when Sheldon spoke for the first time about Amy with her friends, specifying that it was a girl who was a friend, but not his girlfriend, Leonard jokingly pointed out that to take her home he had to submit to the rules of the contract between roommates.
At the time Sheldon found no meaning in those words, complaining that Amy was his friend, not a friend of them, to stop them referring to the girls including Amy as his girlfriend, but more time passed, more guests rules in the contract between roommates were too rigid and simplistic, Amy was no longer just a guest in that house, was a member of the group, she should have to follow the rules that he had been prepared for Koothrappali and Wolowitz, but also those directives were not suitable to the case of Amy.
It was clear that it was time to start a section about his friendship with Amy, but Amy was too educated and intelligent to need regulation for the basic rules of hygiene as Penny, Amy, at that moment, did not have a framework, Sheldon had not rules to impose.
And if it was not necessary to give her the rules, Sheldon felt a need to limit her, to keep Amy all for himself, it was him who needed to have Amy as a rule, he began a draft of a contract to indemnify, was a difficult contract to write, ever he has to write a regulation to a relation of the mind, he was trying to draw up the relationship agreement.
He was tying himself to another human being, it was the most binding of all contracts which previously he had drawn up, the only action to write it down and read it to monitor connect him to her, and she, in spite of the very restrictive terms signed it, Amy was officially his girlfriend.
Not immediately, but however, he realized the meaning of the term girlfriend: under this term he had sketched dozens of trials of contracts, changes or amendments for the girls Leonard brought home and with whom he spent the night together.
No he had to protect his person and respect the lack of physical contact between them within the agreement, they are one to each other and Amy was bound to him and she could not appeal to the previous amendments written down for Leonard's girls, those drafts had to be hidden, Sheldon could not get rid of anything and he made a box and brought contracts in his fort.
His relationship with Amy was fine, they were in their own way a couple, but with time, Amy seemed to manifest a growing interest to increase intimacy and physical contact between them.
Before drawing up the contract Amy, a bit shines, kissed Sheldon on the lips, after signing the relationship agreement she respected Sheldon's will and Amy never tried to go beyond or exceeding limits.
But, despite not give to see openly, Amy was beginning to hope, Amy was confident that before or then there would be an update of the relationship agreement.