Setup: I'm talking to an interesting OKCupid denizen who's an author, and who despite being rather full of himself is rather witty and seems worth chatting with.
In the first conversation we have, Author-Fanboy tells me "Oh, the first time I met [well-known science fiction author] I was nude at the time" and goes on to share an amusing story regarding being at a convention and skinnydipping, and being called out of the pool by an acquaintance of his to meet WKSFA.
Now, however improbable, this story doesn't bother me because (a) it's about the person himself's naked bits and (b) he's not sharing anything that a dozen or two people didn't already see at the time.
Problem: During our second conversation, he discusses someone known to both of us-- a woman who's dating a guy I plan to meet up with on Saturday. Now, I'll take my lumps here, I may not have clearly explained that while I know OF this person, I don't actually KNOW her. (In other words, he may have felt that he was talking to someone who knew her, which may have made him more comfortable sharing things about her.)
However, Author-Fanboy goes on to tell me...uh, well, I don't want to say exactly, but he told me quite a bit about a PRIVATE conversation between him and this certain woman, and specifics about certain of her body parts.
"Whoa, TMI!" says I, upon hearing this.
"What?" he responds. "I told you the story about me and WKSFA, you didn't object to that!"
Am I weird for thinking that telling amusing stories about yourself naked in public is WAY different from telling stories about people's private conversations and encounters with you?
And more to the point, ought I to let the woman in question know about it or would that be equally creepy? And how would one do that without mortally embarrassing us both? He says that she's "okay with" such things, but not having heard it from her, I'm wary.
