Old School
Today Will and I were over at my mom's house looking for the front license plate to my car, the plate that was never attached to the front of my Saturn and which has been a non-issue since I bought the car in 1998. Will drove my car to the airport a few days ago where he was promptly pulled over and issued a fix-it ticket for the lack of a front plate.
I knew that the plate had to be in my old bedroom at my mom's and, as I was looking through boxes, Will and I were having a nice chat with my mom and her live-in boyfriend, Donnie.
My mom and Donnie are both retired and they watch a crap load of movies, so many movies that they should be members of Netflix, but my mom is afraid to put her credit card number on the internet because it could be stolen by some hacker kid in Iowa. She has no problem giving the 16-year-old pizza delivery kid her credit card number and signature, but the encrypted and protected code on the internet? You just can't trust that.
My mom and Donnie were highly recommending the new Pirates of Caribbean movie and, in case we didn't know, Donnie was giving us a description of the leading actor, the one who plays Jack Sparrow.
"He's the guy," Donnie explained, "who was Johnny Scissorfields in that one movie."
I know a lot of people just say "lol" but I was seriously laughing pretty hard after that last sentence there.
Posted by: Benji | July 22, 2006 at 12:38 AM
Seriously...we were underwhelmed with Pirates II. Even staring that Johnny Scissorhands guy. ;) I'd wait for Netflix.
Posted by: Erin | July 22, 2006 at 06:25 AM
haha donnie is funny.
I loved the movie. I liked it better than the 1st one.
Posted by: kathryn | July 22, 2006 at 07:31 AM
love the story. very funny. :-)
... and you can get a ticket for not having a front plate? yikes, i'm in trouble now.
Posted by: ally bean | July 22, 2006 at 08:45 AM
hehe. At least he didn't say, "It's that guy from that show 21 Jump Street." Remember that one? That show introduced me to the heart throb that is currently known as Johnny Depp.
Posted by: Sijbrich | July 22, 2006 at 09:24 AM
I heart Donnie.
Posted by: shannon | July 22, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Johnny Scissorfields. Haha. I needed a laugh.
Posted by: alfredsmom | July 23, 2006 at 07:50 PM
So you have not gotten a ticket for no front plate from 1998 until now? Here in Michigan, you only need the rear plate. Do they really hand out 2 renewal stickers when you renew your plates?
Posted by: Jennifer | July 25, 2006 at 10:40 AM