Writer's Island - Unexpected, Overshadowed, Reconciliation

A "Classic"

I actually had some poetry in the works, but this was so funny, I am shelving it for another day, and submitting this for Writer's Island instead.


My husband and I went to the video store last night to grab a movie. My husband is a sweet man, but every now and then his easy disposition is overshadowed by grumpiness. After listening to him grumble a few times, I gave him free reign to choose what he wanted and headed for the book section of the store.

So my husband is browsing through the new releases on his own, cursed by a group of teenaged girls following in his wake. He said he had never heard the word "like" so misused... lol! He said he was trying hard not to listen to them, but you know how a group of teen girls can be! They're pretty impossible not to overhear. After passing through over half the new release section, their conversation took an unexpected turn.

"There's, like, nothing to, like, rent over here."

"What do you, like, want to do?"

"How about we, like, rent a classic?"

My husband's jaw hits the floor. He's pretty impressed - these bubble heads want to see a classic? Then the conversation continues:

"Like what?"

"How 'bout, like **ZOOLANDER?"

My husband almost collapses in laughter. He was quite glad to have the mirthful moment for a reconciliation since he found nothing to rent either!



If you consider Zoolander a classic, I don't mean to offend - it's just my husband was thinking a true classic - you know, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, etc. Zoolander most certainly didn't come to mind, as it is a Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson movie released in 2001!