Hello. The following story was written in an email to my friend.
I just came home from watching the move Inside Out. As a movie review: it was amazing. Brilliant. Touching. It made me cry, surprisingly. I rarely cry at movies, but this one got me a couple of times. I highly recommend that you watch it some time.
I was seeing the movie with my buds, Amy and Rosa. After the movie ended, I do this tradition in which I have everyone take pictures in the photobooth, and then I try my hand at this claw machine game where you win rubber duckies.
So, upon approaching the machine, I took a look at what ducks I could win. This one duck design stood out to me. It was a duck shaped like a dalmatian- only.... the spots didn't exactly look like perfect dots. It sorta... Anyway, we called it the "Penis Duck".
I put in my dollar, and Rosa's nudging me, "GET THE PENIS DUCK." I'm laughing, shaking my head, going, "No, no, no I don't- I can't."
"So which one are you gonna try to get? Ohh, look there's sock monkey ones."
I'm just moving the joystick randomly, trying to think. "Oh, man. I don't know which one I want." Suddenly, the claw starts going down without my permission. "AW, MAN. NO!" I yelled. I followed the claw with my eyes, and I basically screamed when I saw what I picked up.
"Oh my god. OH MY GOD," I'm gripping onto Rosa's shoulder, in disbelief.
"No WAY," Rosa says between her bouts of laughter. I pull out the duck the claw machine picked out for me, and....
I got it. I got the Penis Duck. I held up the duck to Rosa (Amy was in the bathroom, I should mention), and I said through my laughter, "IT MUST'VE BEEN DESTINY."
Not too long after that, Rosa's dad came around to take Rosa home. I rode with Amy. Walking to Amy's car, we saw a woman with a really rad convertible. Like that thing, when putting the roof down, looked like it came from the Transformers. We loudly complimented her car, so she could hear us. "WOAH, THAT THING IS AMAZING!" "IT'S LIKE A TRANSFORMER" "THE FUTURE IS NOW, OH MY GOD."
Amy & I got into the car, and Amy started driving us home. At a stop light, Transformer lady was stopped right next us. Our windows were rolled all the way down, and Amy grabbed this AUX chord, and was like, "QUICK JESS, PLAY THE TRANSFORMER THEME SONG ON YOUR PHONE!!!" I did it, and while the theme blasted, we both looked expectantly at the transformer lady, but she was on her phone and paid no mind to the two teenagers in the car blasting obnoxiously loud music. Shame.
Once that song ended, I played the Avengers theme, because who doesn't love the Avengers, honestly? When that song ended, I was asked Amy, "Oh, what song should I play next?"
"Umm.... Star Spangled Man With A Plan." [Hear the song here] (i may or may not have made this song my ringtone *cough*)
"YES."
I passionately sang along, WHO WILL CAMPAIGN DOOR TO DOOR FOR AMERICA? CARRY THE FLAG, SHORE TO SHORE, FOR AMERICA? FROM HOBOKEN TO SPOKANE! THE STARRRR SPANGLED MAANNNN WITH A PLANNNNNNN!
Once that song ended, I was sorta short on what to play next. Scrolling through the songs on my phone, I found an all american anthem to save the say. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson. Rolling through my neighborhood, now, the two of us sang with all our hearts and souls to this song. We turned heads. Little kids waved at us. It was amazing.
And thus ends my night. :)
