I'll admit it: I am just a bit crazy about quoting movies. OK,
really crazy. Even toeing the line of obsessed, I suppose. Let me tell you
why.
Ever since I can remember, staying home sick from school was
actually kind of fun. Best. Day. Ever! I
got to stay home all day and watch whatever movies I wanted. Of course, I
always picked Disney movies because they make me happy and they were about the
only kind of movies in the house. My sisters and I wore out the VHSs (wow, am I
that old?) because we watched them so much.
Because of this, my sisters and I became experts of those movies.
We could watch a movie once, maybe twice, and already have favorite quotes
picked out and have most of the movie memorized. The other zillion times of
viewing the movie was just for the giggles and so we could quote along.
My sisters and I would even have entire dinner conversations
completely in movie quotes. If we had chicken pot pie, there was always a “I
don’t want to be a pie. I don’t like gravy” in the conversation somewhere. Or
when passing the salt, “Ooh, take it Kronk, feel the power,” to which the
response was, “Oh, I can feel it.” My poor parents were usually lost, and our
witty quotes went right over their heads.
Now, I'll be talking to people and quotes just slip out of my
mouth, like daisies. At that point, either they think I'm really clever because—regardless
of whether or not they know I'm quoting—it was cleverly woven into the
conversation, or they think I'm really weird. My quote slips right through
their fingers, and they can’t grasp what I’m saying. My quote-loving heart
bleeds a little when this happens.
Luckily, I found someone to marry who speaks my crack-a-lackin
language. I like him, I like him so much. You hate him compared to how much I
like him. He has bewitched me, body and soul, with his clever tongue and witty
remarks. There will be many quoting fests between us, to infinity and beyond.
