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February 18, 2005
Synchronicity..
We're sitting in the living room, watching Hidalgo, a movie about Frank Thompson and his horse, Hidalgo. Hidalgo and Frank are challenged to take part in a 3000 mile race across Arabia.
Susan is in here watching it with us, and although Kim and I have seen the movie before, this is her first time. There's a lot of different accents running around in this movie, and Susan is asking us what folks have said here and there.
Partway through the movie, Frank is giving Hidalgo a drink of water when he sees one of the other riders at full tilt. Then they spot another rider at full stride.
"Slow down boys," Franks says, "it's a long way to Damascus."
Now Susan didn't quite catch that line, and asked us about it. We repeated it to her, but she asked us if Frank had meant the way the horse was drinking the water. Hidalgo is a horse, and they tend to be a little messy. Frank had been talking about the riders, who by now we see are riding away from a massive sandstorm.
"No, he was talking about the other guys in the race," I told her.
Susan had missed the other racers along with the line, so she says "Why was he talking about the other guys in the race?"
"Because they were hauling ass," Kim and I both said at once.
It was one of those moments of synchronicity, a perfect alignment of two minds. They happen quite often between myself and my wife.
You gotta love a woman who can say "hauling ass" to her mother without stopping to think about it.
Posted by john at February 18, 2005 08:42 PM