The Nicest Thing

Twenty days later, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannd she's back!

Remember Bria's post about the old man who held the door for her? Well I was thinking of it the other evening after someone held the door for me. I was leaving Blockbuster, and I had just grabbed my movie when two "modern day greasers" entered the building, filling Blockbuster with their aura of suave cockiness. One of them held the door for me as I was leaving.

ME: Thank you.
MR. GREASER DUDE: (in a butter smooth, cool as anything voice.) Always.
ME: (Smiling and laughing in the car all the way home.)

Ask me sometime and I'll tell you just how he said it.

I was grateful for his holding the door for me, and as I drove home thought how it's such a gentlemanly gesture to do so. When I was telling someone about the "always" guy, she thought he sounded really creepy. But he wasn't.

And here's one other thing. I remember DJ saying something about how although people let others hold the door for them, they almost always put their hand out to hold the door in case the person lets go. I don't like to do that. I feel that if the person is going the extra effort to hold the door for me, why not give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they're not going to let the door smash in my face. I'll let them do their job thoroughly. :)

I'm still trying to decide if this story is a you-had-to-be-there story. :)

A Bria-esque Post

Sonnet One Hundred Sixteen

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken:
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
~William Shakespeare


A nonbriaesque side note:
If you skipped over this then you missed something beautiful. GO BACK AND READ IT!

A Few British Quotes and INSECT INFESTATION

Here's a couple quotes from one of my favorite actors. I like it when famous people sound normal and like everyday people. And for the record, I didn't go hunting for these quotes, I found them all at one of my favorite sites, IMDB. Enjoy.

Discussing his working out to get in shape for a certain role: "The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can't fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear its true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I'd realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could've been out having a drink and enjoying some lunch."


"The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping and, actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I love sleeping so much that I could do it 12 hours a day if I didn't have to turn on the alarm clock...and still, sometimes..."


"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them."

"You can't help but find that violence is endlessly fascinating-and I mean true violence, not action-movie violence, just because it is used as the answer to so many problems. We're all taught as kids not to be violent, but you can't help but also see that violence is what works very often. Bullies thrive."

"At the time that Chris Nolan asked me to do it [Batman Begins] I actually couldn't do one push-up. They sent me to a trainer, who was having to hold my T-shirt at the back just to pull me up. I've come a long way from that."

P.S. or whatever you call an afternote on the blog. I have a fear of insects and spiders, and today I found a silverfish in my room (huh, I just cleaned it! Why is there this disgusting damp-lover in my dry clean room?) and then walked in to a spider. (I promptly vacuumed up the spider.) and then watched the new Charlotte's Web. Funny, but incredibly revolting with this furry faced, eight eyed, spider spinning webs. Shelob didn't bother me, but Charlotte did, even if it really was fake and Julia Roberts was her voice. All I can say is, at least they're not roaches!