Monday, November 26, 2007

Dear Mr. Disney,

It has taken almost 25 ½ years to finally figure this out, but it all clicked last night as I was watching your production company’s latest release, Enchanted. It is not my fault that I am single at the age of 25. Now I’m not blaming you for my single-ness, but I’m just having a moment of clarity. I have finally come to the realization that there is really nothing detrimentally wrong with me. All of these quirks of mine are what make me unique, and not abnormal. It is that you’ve set such a high bar, or standard really, that has been engrained into my head since childhood that no man that I have met yet has come close to it. Or if I thought that they were close, something happened (ie, my quirkiness) that ended whatever from not happening. So really Mr. Disney, I should be thanking you, I am 25 and single by choice. I have not fallen for Mr. “Right Now” because my Prince Charming is out there….just hidden. Well hidden. So thank you.

Oh and I enjoyed Enchanted. It was cute and it’s always nice to be taken away from reality for an hour and a half. For your next movie, if you want the Princess to be loosely based on a cute and fun-loving Auditor, your writers can follow me around for a bit. I won’t mind at all. :)

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

All Thumbs

So I live on the North side of town and work on the West/Southwest side. There are multiple ways that I could drive into work, and depending on where I’m going that week I could actually drive a different way to work every day. Well this week I’m downtown, so I went a way that I normally don’t go but I like going this way because the drivers, normally, are so much nicer because they are paying to drive on the road. (Which I know sounds odd but honestly, people are nicer drivers if they aren’t sitting in traffic are paying to drive.) Well anyways, I’m driving on said road and I guess that I didn’t see the guy or I caused him to tap his breaks or something along that line because I made him a little mad/unhappy with him. So much that he pulled up on my right side and gave me a very spirited double-thumb thumb’s up. Seriously…his thumbs, and then he stayed on my right side, which prohibited me from changing lanes, until he exited. This then proves my theory that people are nicer when paying for road usage, because honestly if we were on a Freeway, I would probably have been flicked off, honked at, and subsequently killed. I recounted this story for my team when I finally did make it out to the clients, and my manager thinks that it was probably due to the fact that he liked my new car and that I’m too nice of a driver to have cut him off! Honestly, I don’t know if she’s ever seen me drive. :)

So are you a nicer driver if you have to pay?

posted by Melinda @ 5:57 PM 0 comments