Me: [... long tale of my weekend ... ]
Dan: Sounds like an emotional roller coaster.
Me: Yeah. Too much drama.
Dan: Want to see a movie?
Me: Sure. Something distracting.
I should have specified that by "distracting", I meant "hilarious and action-packed" in the manner of "Home Alone" or "South Park: The Movie".
Instead Dan took me to see "A Scanner Darkly". An hour into it, I was recoiling in my seat away from the three onscreen drugged-up men ranting about conspiracies and threatening to fight each other with hammers. For the next 20 minutes, I debated leaving the theatre because the characters were so out of control. I stayed, which was fortunate as the ending was satisfying.
Walking out of the theatre...
Dan: Was that sufficiently distracting?
Me: Uh ... in the "fighting fire with fire" sense.
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Moral of the weekend: Use more specific words when speaking.
while in barcelona now, i've been thinking a lot about language and communication. for instance, i ordered strawberry icecream, the waiter repeated strawberry, and then brought we chocolate, which i subsequently realized was exactly what i had wanted.
ReplyDeleteamazing.
in terms of walking out of movies, i've only ever walked out of one (there were like 5 of us, and it was unanimous agreement). the movie was batman 4, the one with the governator and poor uma.
the real problem: why did dan want to see that movie! :)