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   Monday, May 11, 2009

   SAD BUT TRUE

Yes, with my tenure at the Xtra blog nearing its one-year anniversary, it's been a while since I wrote anything here on my own site but, in truth, life's okay these days -- I've little to process, ha ha.

But as Darcy and I begin dating in earnest yet again (third time's the charm!), my surprise and delight at it all is tempered just a little by the nagging, niggling worry that we're just each other's enabler. Drinking? No, worse!

Tonight was a case in point, with quotes as true as I can recall:

ACT ONE: The telephone

DARCY (on phone): Hey, I'm heading downtown. Have you eaten yet?
ME: No, I'm fighting this insane urge to walk down to the Burger King at the Eaton Centre.
DARCY (excitedly): To get the new Star Trek glasses???
SCOTT: Oh God. You're not going to talk me out of this.
DARCY: Why would I? Let's go!

ACT TWO: Crossing Yonge and Dundas

DARCY: They said you could pay $7.50 for all four glasses instead of $1.99 each but no store has all four. How can they advertise that?
SCOTT: Well, they want people to keep coming in and eating their crappy food every week.
DARCY: I don't like it.
SCOTT: We'll make them give us all four! I'll tell 'em it's a violation of Starfleet regulation 4702 dash 6-4-J stroke alpha...umm...subsection 12. Why, even an Orion slave trader would have...umm...better...
[DARCY looks on in open-mouthed horror]
SCOTT: Yeah, that's all I've got. Where's Dan Ackroyd when you need him?
DARCY: Well, you're doing the talking when we get there.

ACT THREE: At the counter

MANAGER (befuddled): All four? No, I'm sorry -- we only have these two.
SCOTT: Kirk and Uhura.
DARCY (opening backpack to reveal two "Nero" glasses): And these! I bought them up at Yonge and Eglinton!
SCOTT: Amazing -- that just leaves Spock.
DARCY: So it's The Search for Spock!
SCOTT (laughing): Yes, the Search for Spock!

ACT FOUR: At the plastic dinner table

SCOTT: I can't believe we travelled out of our way to have dinner at a Burger King. Still, these really are pretty -- hey, wait a minute...Uhura's glass has the USS Kelvin on the box.
DARCY: So?
SCOTT: Well, each character is paired up with their own ship, see? But Uhura never served on the Kelvin. She probably wasn't even born when it...oh God.
DARCY: What?
SCOTT: I'm Captain Sweatpants.

Labels: insanity, movies, oh l'amour

i love this blog. it's a good kind of enabling :)

-- Reply posted by  danielle at May 12, 2009

 

This is where I can say, "I'm so happy/concerned for you!"

-- Reply posted by  Whisky Prajer at May 13, 2009

 

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