Daily Mantra: “You make me want to be a better man.”
{melvin.udall (aka: jack.nicholson) in ‘as good as it gets}
When I first met my husband (ok, like two or three weeks after I met him) he said that line to me. At the time, I had never seen the movie…so of course, I thought he was the most original, poetic, loving man in the world. I really knew I had a catch with a man who could say something like that. Fast forward a few months later, I was sitting down and watching that movie with him, and out comes “You make me want to be a better man” from Jack Nicholson’s mouth. I think my jaw must have dropped clear down to the floor. I had totally fallen for a guy who used a line from a MOVIE! I remember hitting him on the arm, and him looking at me bewildered, as if Jack had stolen the line from him. Sure.
By then, it was too late. I had moved in with him. We had silverware and a coffee pot and our own separate bath towels. Other than the one liners he fed me throughout the first six months of our relationship (yes…there were so many more), and the times he told me I was beautiful when I was pregnant…80 lbs heavier, cancles, a sick obsession with mens sweat pants…he has been stand up guy, so I have let this minor (MAJOR) detail slide.
One of my old boy friends from high school used Shakespeare (of course, I was smarter then, so I knew what he was doing), but I still went out with him anyway. Another one used chocolate and flowers…this was by far the best approach. (I have a passion for sweet food and things that smell nice, like most girls). In the end, it turned out that he was making an advance payment on the lies he would tell me later on in the relationship.
Yup…call me a sucker for all things sweet, pick up lines, and other lies of love. I am glad I am…it has made for an interesting adventure to say the least.
An unrelated photo….although if I never fell for that movie line, these two wouldn’t have happened, right? So…lets say…slightly related.
Katie was feeling shy today ( I was going to say ”in the bag” but I don’t think that would be a good thing to say about my 2 year old ), so Mikki thought she would contribute.
by amanda.b.
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