In the movie, “You’ve Got Mail” (a.k.a. one of the best movies of ALL TIME) Meg Ryan’s character says, “So much of my life reminds me of a book, when, shouldn’t it be the other way around?”
I feel like a lot of things that happen in my life remind me of a TV or movie quote (such as the very first sentence of this entry.)
Example: This is definitely t.m.i., but I am sharing it with you because no reason: I drink a lot of tea and coffee every day + really long meetings = so when I finally get a potty break, I am often very self-conscious that other people in the bathroom will be reminded of this scene:
Another example: recently in one of these very long meetings, I had a Seinfeld/Tweety Pez Dispenser episode moment. You know this episode:
Well, I am just sitting there in a meeting minding my business as someone is walking through a presentation, when my colleague, with a very serious look on his face, calmly reached over and, seeming like he had a very important note for me, drew a single dot on my copy which ruined me for the rest of the meeting. I had to leave the room. Do you see what he did?
I was finished.
If you know me at all, you know that Friends is more than a show to me (and to some of my best friends)... it's more of a religion. I could have Friends on Season 1 Episode 1 and watch it clear through the entire series without getting bored or annoyed. Sometimes, my ex-roommate and I would communicate only via Friends quotes and memes, and we still do, to this day!
Including the fact that my spirit animal is someplace between Chandler and Phoebe.
Friends taught us how to deal with all sorts of emotions and situations.
Recently, after a day at the archery range, a bunch of us went to get lunch. We had a couple of new folks joining us, including a new member who just moved here from Brighton, England. He's only been here in America for four months.
After suffering through a few moments of my interrogations, I asked him, "So what's the biggest difference to you between here and there?" And he said, without me even having to tell him to say this:
"Well, Americans are so funny. The British don't really show emotion. But the Americans, you laugh loud, you are very expressive. It's like you are all on the show Friends. Do you know that show? When we watch it in England, we think that it couldn't possibly be like that; that people couldn't be like that all of the time. But now that I am here, it's so funny - I can't tell if Friends was written about you, or if you are all acting out Friends."
I swear to God, I was so proud, I almost shed a tear.
And lastly, there's the city togetherness you see on TV. One thing I love about working in the city is randomly seeing people whom I know in the streets. I remember I used to watch shows like Seinfeld, and the characters would see each other in the streets, and I would think, “Oh come on... of all of the millions of people roaming the streets of NYC, these people just HAPPEN to bump into each other all the time? I don’t think so.”
But actually, it happens to me quite frequently. I see colleagues from my previous job, or folks I knew from school, or people I've met just from other friends. Just the other day I was walking in a cross walk, and an ex-colleague I haven’t seen in over a year (she now works at Under Armor, across the harbor) honked and yelled at me as she drove me. I love it.
I could go on and on about real-life references from The Golden Girls, Will & Grace, and basically every early-2000's sitcom, but I think you get the picture. There is basically a reference running through my head at any given point in time.
That's all for now. Keep it together, if you can.
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