I was just up in the loft fiddling around on the computer up there. One of my many odd mannerisms is that sometimes I will have scenes from movies running through my mind, and sometimes I will say the lines from such scenes out-loud. At the particular moment I'm referring to here, a scene from The Breakfast Club was what I happened to be running through...:
"Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a b***h, ret*d, big mouth, know-it-all, a**hole, jerk..."
"You forgot ugly, lazy, and disrespectful..."
"SHUT UP, b***h! Go fix me some turkey pot pie."
A morbid reminder of a shadowy reflection of my early family life...
In any case, I confess that when I said the "Shut up, b***h!" part, I roared it at the top of my lungs; I love to run through movie lines with exageration mock feeling.
My wife, who was tooling around in the kitchen beneath the loft, only heard the part where I screamed "Shut up, b***h!" She meekly poked her head up over the top of the loft stairs, and asked, "Who are you talking to? Is everything alright?" Now, when I do the movie lines thing, most of the time it is entirely independent of what I'm actually thinking about or working on. At the time she asked me this, I happened to be working on organizing some backup files. I looked at her with confusion and said, "What?", as I honestly had no idea what she was asking me about. It took me a few more moments and some additional prompting to realize she'd overheard my ranting, and thought I was talking to someone online.
...at which point I just told her I was running through part of the Breakfast club.
Good fortune,
- Icarus is an adventure to live with...
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