My girlfriend finds me in the kitchen with tools all over the place putting the last touches on a cheapo ($3 total expediture) singlespeed conversion (it will be a fixie when I have the money for a fixed hub).

"Hey, how's it goin'?"
"Pretty good, I'm almost finished."
"Are you," (looking at deraileurs, levers, and chainring on the ground) "putting this stuff on?"
"No, I'm taking it off, it's just going to have one gear."
"Why?"
"It's nice, you really only need one most the time anyway, you just pedal."
"You mean--like a beach cruiser."
"No, a beach cruiser is a forty pound lumbering tank with a coaster brake. This (motioning at my bike) is going to be a twenty-pound fixed gear rocket. It's liberating, you don't fiddle with gears at all, you just pedal--you'd have to try it."
"But it only has one gear, right?"
"Yeah--one gear."
"I used to have one of those when I was a kid." she says as she starts to walk away--"We called it a beach cruiser."


Gotta love her.