What's Your Desire?

On June 5^th was the last transit of Venus across the sun for over a century. Fernando, being the astute lover of all things cosmological that he is, procured a set of eclipse shades and made a thing out of it to make sure he viewed this once-in-a-lifetime event. Once the transit started in the early evening, he popped those bad boys on and headed out into the parking lot to stare at the sun.

He was not able to watch it uninterrupted, however, as he still was open for business, so when somebody pulled into the parking lot Fernando doffed the shades and returned indoors. Most people either knew what he was doing or did not care enough to comment on Fernando's behavior, but one enterprising soul who came to return some movies seemed unable to grasp why Fernando would do this thing.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

“Watching the transit of Venus across the sun,” replied Fernando. He removed the shades. “Would you like to take a look?”

“What's the point?”

“Well, it only happens once every century or so. Since I'm not yet immortal, I'd like to ensure that I see it before I die.”

“It's just Venus crossing the sun.”

“Right. That's the whole point.”

“That's boring.”

“So is watching football and Christ knows I have to put up with people who harp on and on about that.”

Either the analogy explained things sufficiently or the guy gave up. Fernando doesn't care which.