When I was young my friends and I loved watching goofy movies late at night. Quotes from those movies always seemed to find their way into our lives. One of those movies was the Chevy Chase classic Fletch. The two best quotes from that movie are 1) when the old man asks Fletch, "Boy, what in THE hell is the matter with you?" and 2) when he goes in for a physical and bursts into singing "Moon River" as the doctor checks his prostate. Any time something strange or awkward happened we would spontaneously sing that song. Soon after graduating from high school, I found myself alone in the middle of a seven hour bus ride in South America when what soothing sounds should flow through the speakers of the bus? You guessed it, Moon River. I literally laughed out loud and scanned the bus desperately looking for someone, ANYONE with whom I could revel in the comedic perfection of the situation. I soon realized that my limited spanish speaking abilities combined with the cultural differences between me and everyone who surrounded me in preventing anyone from even remotely understanding me.
Too many times I have found myself in that same situation, watching something hysterical happen (visions of my thirtysomething neighbor rolling head over heels into his flower bed while attempting to ride his son's rip stick -as I just so happened to be passing by- are suddenly passing through my mind) but having no one to share it with. This blog is an attempt to share some of those experiences with you because maybe, just maybe, you are someone who will understand the funny events of my life.
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