Old Sheldon:
S8 Sheldon:
"I'm the wise man."
S11 Sheldumb:
"Penny, you're a dumb slut married to Leonard, how do you cope with all of this?"
Head-Shenny:
"I need to talk to Penny, alone." Sheldon shoos Leonard away like a dog. The last thing he needs right now is getting bothered by the little troll. Minutes pass, he does not say anything. Sheldon sits in his spot in silence, until Penny breaks it.
"You wanted to talk to me?" Penny asks him from the far right cushion.
"Not really, I just wanted Leonard to go away, so I can watch some Doctor Who. It helps me clear my head after work." Despite living for almost year across the hall, Sheldon kept returning to his old apartment, to his spot. Because Penny was now there as well.
"Huh." Penny shifts into her spot in the middle cushion. "Most guys usually open up a cold one and later burp like pigs." Penny shakes her head imagining Leonard in a few years. "Wanna talk about it?"
"I plan on working with Bert from the geology department for my next project, can you believe it? Geology..." Sheldon shook his head in disbelief.
"Didn't he recently win some fund prize or something?"
"He did. I must admit, he is good at what he does. Very good. But still nowhere
near my level of work."
"Give him a chance. Things change, Sheldon. Working with Bert can only boost your career. It can't make it worse, right?"
"But what will others think of me, if I'm working with Bert?"
"Since when do
you, of all people, care what everybody else thinks?" Penny was surprised of this. Sheldon never cared about other people's opinions about anything.
"Amy recently pointed to me, I need to be more considerate of other people's feelings and opinions."
"Screw that! Don't let her get into your head, Sheldon. Your confidence was one of the things I liked about you. Don't let that slip away."
"Things change..."
"They should not for the worse. Come on, where's the Sheldon who banished from this apartment!?" Penny nudged his shoulder. "I miss that guy..."