I saw ‘Life of Pi’ today…. And as always, the good lord was
kind enough to put me next to a bunch of fresh-into-college people. Needless to
say, the entire bunch kept talking, checking their cellphones, laughing for
no apparent reason and the worst of all… when one of the bunch decides he wants to
say something to another of the bunch who has decided to sit at the other end
on the row - fastest way to communicate…SCREAM! And I just sat there thinking to
myself,” Stupid bloody youngsters! No respect for anyone else. Not a quart of
responsible blood in their veins and all they can do is behave like delinquents
and be a nuisance to the public….”
Here's a little something to get you all started on your extensive journey of learning about the Meerkat.
WHOA! WHOA! WHOOOOOOOOAAAAA! What the *insert profanity*
just happened there? Did I just think THAT? Oh my god, I’ve turned into a
disgruntled responsible adult. Oh lord. When did this happen? I’ve not even had
most of the required rights-of-passage to move on from teenager to young adult
to responsible adult. And here I am going “this generation has no respect for
anyone’. Yikes, when did I get old? Is it all these children calling me ‘uncle’
that has made my sub-conscience come to assume that I am old? And my thoughts
are further going into the realm of ‘Youth will never understand the value of
experience and experience has forgotten the impatience of youth’ and so on and
so forth. I almost felt like I was Dumbledore given some fatherly old-man
advice to Harry Potter.
Needless to say, the rest of the movie was spent with me
trying to perform Occlumency to close my mind off to such thoughts.
Let’s now talk about the other annoying part of the theater
experience. A couple among the rowdy bunch of irresponsible teens, was sitting
next to me. Yes, the fellow who was trying to communicate with his friend at
the other end of the row by screaming. He was sitting next to this girl who was
clearly the subject of his attempts at courtship. How do I know? Well why else
would one ask about what one had for breakfast? How they got to the
theater? Whom do they stay with at home? What kind of movies they like? And so
on. Yes, I was eavesdropping…. My life is THAT empty and boring.
Our friend here has seen the movie before; I know this
because he’s already telling her about the story and and in a rather loud voice what was going to appear on the
screen. Normally, the old grumpy cynic in me gets peeved and requests people to
go silent, but it was more fun listening to Fresh-boy here.
Spoiler ALERT. (Don’t read if you’ve not seen the movie).
Fresh boy decides to name the animals before they pop up on the screen. He
predicts a butterfly will come now. Only that it wasn’t a butterfly, but a hummingbird.
He then says that they will show a mother and baby pig. The ‘mother-pig’ was
actually a hippo. Girl is sitting there going uh-huh…uh-huh to fresh boy’s evident
lack of knowledge of the animal kingdom. Thank god he did not call the iguana a
komodo dragon. But he did say that he saw the same in ‘Skyfall’. He even called
the ‘Meerkats’ as ‘that one that came in Madagascar, they will start singing and
dancing now’, to which the girl was ROFL-ing (stupid younger generation don’t laugh,
they just go LOL, ROFL, ROFLMAO all the bloody time). Those ,dear Fresh boy are
lemurs….L-E-M-U-R-S…these are Meerkats… M-E-E-R-K-A-T-S. Notice the subtle
spelling difference?
But to the boy’s credit, he’s here in a movie, with a girl
and hitting on her with his extensive knowledge of animals to which she’s
giggling away, while ‘someone else’ came home and wrote a blog about it!!! I
guess that’s what we older and wiser people do….. Besides eavesdropping on
courting couples in the theater. Clearly my knowledge of the ‘difference
between a lemur and a meerkat’ is not exactly of much value in the real world.
Of course unless I took a zoologist out.
PS: I think yours truly is just jealous that extensive
knowledge on rock bands coupled with minimal knowledge of playing guitar and
near zero experience of being in a rock band is not creating the necessary buzz
in required target markets while inadequate understanding of the animal kingdom
seems to give one a fighting chance.
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