Recently, we attended my husband’s eleven year high school reunion. It made me recall this quote from Hope Floats:
“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”
~Birdee Pruitt
“You’re talking about the American dream. You find something that you love and then you twist and you torture it, try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that and at the end you can’t find a trace of what you started out loving.”
~Justin Matisse
My former boss was Scottish. I introduced him to the movie So I Married an Axe Murderer. In this flick, Mike Myers plays the Scottish father and really lays on the Scottish accent. There was one scene where Mike Myers is at a wedding singing the song “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” to bagpipes. Quite a funny scene especially when the piper collapses and Mike Myers screams “Piper Down!” My boss and I played it on Youtube several times over the years and had quite a few laughs. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when he began to sing it at our karaoke farewell dinner.
The thing is – he declared a dedication prior to singing the song…to me. Remember the song title? It was Do Ya Think I’m Sexy. Oh and people, not everyone has seen this movie nor did we pass the Youtube video around the office (because we were supposed to be working). Like 3 people knew it was from that movie and got the reference of the dedication. The rest of the group probably thinks we had an affair. Geesh, talk about making a farewell memory!