Love Actually may be all around, but tonight I found that actually love is having your
boyfriend, who (1) never wanted to watch this chick flick in the first place and who (b) just before you pressed Play
from the DVD menu, grumpily compared it to a "sharp stick in the eye" and who (iii) made you watch every other
NetFlix movie before succumbing to this torture as a very last resort, not only WATCHES the movie with you but (A) smiles and
laughs warmly to indicate that he is *touched* in the all right parts and (2) walks v e r y , v e r y s l o w l y out of the room
while staring at the screen and rushes back in when he's finished whatever he left the room for (or when he believes he's missing
something involving the nude blonde girl and the guy who plays Tim in The Office) and (III) kindly takes the remote
control when the DVD just FREEZES during the climactic good parts, skips ahead to the next track, and then rewinds (three
different times!) backwards through the scenes until you're back to the point just after the freeze occurs ALL WHILE you cover
your eyes so that none of the magic of the linear progression of the movie is ruined for you.
* K I S S * |
