Ever have something in your life play out just like a movie?

[Cyco]

After the dust settled she called me out of the blue. We had a normal conversation and got caught up with things. She told me how much she missed me. When we said our goodbyes she told me that I should give her a call sometime. I never did.

 

[GasX]

I have an image in my head of the OP standing outside his ex's house holding a boombox above his head blasting Peter Gabriel.

:music:In Your Eyes...:music:

 

[Drakkon]

A couple years back grandfather had died - It was expected as he was very ill and old but none the less heartbreaking. Whole family came from across the country to be with each other. Well the upcoming weekend our horse was in - he hadn't raced in months, had been trained, but it looked rather bleek. So the thing was this was grandfathers thing, he had raced horses for a long time, passed in on to my dad who was trying to pass it on to me. Anyways horse gets up to race, breaks from the gate, and in spectacular style runs away from the field, just crushing the rest. For the first time my dad asks me to hold the horse in the winners circle - pretty big honor frankly. Get to greet the jockey on the way back and says how this one is for the old man - go to the winners circle and like all of grampa's old friends over the years are there along with many of his kids and grand kids. Dad who is usually a hard faced unemotional type goes and puts his hand on the horses ass while they take the picture - a classic pose his dad used to do.

Pic from that day

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I have an image in my head of the OP standing outside his ex's house holding a boombox above his head blasting Peter Gabriel.

:music:In Your Eyes...:music:

I just saw that recently, and I gotta say... I thought High Fidelity and Serendipity were better.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I was on I-20 headed to Dallas. I suddenly notice cars ahead of me braking and moving off to the side. Directly ahead I can see an SUV, maybe a Chevy Trailblazer, sailing through midair spinning fast and finally coming to rest on its tires. Apparently the driver had grazed the cement divider beside the left lane at 70 mph or so, and sent the SUV flying. Just like the movies. It was a twisting rotation, not end-over-end flip.

Thanks to the fact that all the rotating took place in the air, rather than on the pavement, the driver was basically ok, and those witnesses who stopped on the shoulder, pulled her out from the side window. I was rushing to catch a flight so I just drove around. I was the first car to pass the wreck. No other vehicles were damaged.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Snip

Wow.


For me?

Ever see the movie Office Space (who hasn't?). That's pretty much my life.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
I was on I-20 headed to Dallas. I suddenly notice cars ahead of me braking and moving off to the side. Directly ahead I can see an SUV, maybe a Chevy Trailblazer, sailing through midair spinning fast and finally coming to rest on its tires. Apparently the driver had grazed the cement divider beside the left lane at 70 mph or so, and sent the SUV flying. Just like the movies. It was a twisting rotation, not end-over-end flip.

Thanks to the fact that all the rotating took place in the air, rather than on the pavement, the driver was basically ok, and those witnesses who stopped on the shoulder, pulled her out from the side window. I was rushing to catch a flight so I just drove around. I was the first car to pass the wreck. No other vehicles were damaged.

You were in a Michael Bay movie. :Q

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
I was on I-20 headed to Dallas. I suddenly notice cars ahead of me braking and moving off to the side. Directly ahead I can see an SUV, maybe a Chevy Trailblazer, sailing through midair spinning fast and finally coming to rest on its tires. Apparently the driver had grazed the cement divider beside the left lane at 70 mph or so, and sent the SUV flying. Just like the movies. It was a twisting rotation, not end-over-end flip.

Thanks to the fact that all the rotating took place in the air, rather than on the pavement, the driver was basically ok, and those witnesses who stopped on the shoulder, pulled her out from the side window. I was rushing to catch a flight so I just drove around. I was the first car to pass the wreck. No other vehicles were damaged.

You were in a Michael Bay movie. :Q

Sounds about right.
In a way I wish I'd seen the whole thing, not just half the midair sequence, though any closer and I'd have been in serious danger. At least there wasn't a chain reaction pileup.
This was back in June BTW.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
I was on I-20 headed to Dallas. I suddenly notice cars ahead of me braking and moving off to the side. Directly ahead I can see an SUV, maybe a Chevy Trailblazer, sailing through midair spinning fast and finally coming to rest on its tires. Apparently the driver had grazed the cement divider beside the left lane at 70 mph or so, and sent the SUV flying. Just like the movies. It was a twisting rotation, not end-over-end flip.

Thanks to the fact that all the rotating took place in the air, rather than on the pavement, the driver was basically ok, and those witnesses who stopped on the shoulder, pulled her out from the side window. I was rushing to catch a flight so I just drove around. I was the first car to pass the wreck. No other vehicles were damaged.

You were in a Michael Bay movie. :Q

Sure it wasn't in CA where they filmed the highway scene from the Matrix?

 

[yours truly]

i bumped into the queen when i was kid

those few minutes played out like an episode from the wonder years or something

 

[randay]

Yes, I have been the the core of the Earth. Just like in that movie.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: hopeless74
i bumped into the queen when i was kid

those few minutes played out like an episode from the wonder years or something

I would loved to have heard Daniel Stern narrate that.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Ever have a dramatic event in your life play out like it was written in a screenplay? First kiss with someone new, last conversation with a loved one on their death bed, something like that? Very often, these events seem to play out far differently than we anticipated, often without the dramatic flourish we see on the big screen. But sometimes, it really feels like it was written in a Hollywood studio.

My example: Years back, I had a sloppy breakup with a girl I was still madly in love with. We both knew the demise of our relationship was her fault. I was hurting pretty bad. Our last meeting (me removing the last of my things from her place) was the "dramatic event" in question. We had been calm and quiet through that whole part of the day. As I loaded the last thing into my car, she was still up on her porch. I closed the door, and she walked briskly out toward me. She burst into tears, held me and told me she was so sorry for how things turned out, and wished me well in the future. As she was walking out, I kid you not, it started pouring rain. We stood in the rain, getting soaked, for a good 5-10 minutes, just holding each other and her softly crying. With our hair matted to our heads and our clothes soaked through, we shared a final kiss-nothing sexual or graphic about it in any way, just a long, extremely emotional closed-mouth kiss. We didn't say another word, I got into my car and she watched me drive away.

Sounds cheesy as fuck, and I guess it is, but that moment will stay with me forever.

That's the gayest shit i've ever heard.

I laughed. Sorry. I hope you were at least trying to think of ways to get some sex out of her in those 5-10 minutes, otherwise there was no reason to stand there.

I guess you missed the part of my post when I noted we'd been together a long time and had been living together. When you've had sex with someone dozens or hundreds of times, getting laid in this particular situation wouldn't really be your goal.

That said, I was a little drunk when I made this post last night. Sorry.