When you go to a conference and meet all sorts of great programmers, you could learn from... and you find yourself muttering, "Boy, I'd like to pair with him" or "Wow, I'd like to pair with her."
I'm one of the few males who suffers from PairEnvy?. I work alone too much (and plagiarize from Woody way too much) -- FrankPurcell
My girlfriend and I are both dotcom dropout programmers and bandwidthhogs and hey we met over the internet so it's all right, but sometimes we don't work on stuff together because, well it's just more togetherness than we really need, you know; respecting each other's mental space and all that.
We do play music together though - does that count?
See also PairProgramming