This and that and your opinions
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 1:27 am
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Some of this stuff we have touched on before, but some of it makes me nuts when watching movies, whether I love them or not. I'll never understand someone who takes the time and effort to light a cigarette with a match, notwithstanding the fact they may just toss the match which would be unthinkable. Often the person has no matches and has to ask for one, then fight with the wind to get it lit . . . then they take one puff and throw the cigarette away. Why bother? To me, Bogey was famous for tossing lit matches and cigarettes to the floor instead of into an ashtray - I hate to think how many fires he would have started.
It's similar with drinks. Some traumatic thing happens and the person says "I need a drink", then proceeds to take one very small sip and walk away a couple of minutes later, leaving the whole drink there on the bar. Also, unless its' a party, where they serve drinks on the rocks, 'a drink' means straight liquor poured into a large whiskey glass, rarely mixed with anything. I spent a lot of time in bars and lounges as a waitress and bartendar and I don't ever recall a woman ordering whiskey straight. I worked in nice steak houses so maybe it was the wrong clientele, but i put in a lot of time to never have a customer order that way.
Pretty much the same thing goes for food. Often a couple is on a date, and they order a lovely dinner, then get up to dance, and either leave from the dance floor, or get a phone call about some police or reporter thing and off they go. I often feel sorry for the poor waiter who get stiffed on two steak dinners, plus gets it deducted from his paycheck. It also happens in diners and hamburger joints.
In Westerns, why is it that only the star and his friends, and sometimes the leader of the bad guys, wear clean clothes, but everyone else is all grubby and dirty.
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I know its silly, but sometimes I can't help but see these things happening and wonder about them.
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Some of this stuff we have touched on before, but some of it makes me nuts when watching movies, whether I love them or not. I'll never understand someone who takes the time and effort to light a cigarette with a match, notwithstanding the fact they may just toss the match which would be unthinkable. Often the person has no matches and has to ask for one, then fight with the wind to get it lit . . . then they take one puff and throw the cigarette away. Why bother? To me, Bogey was famous for tossing lit matches and cigarettes to the floor instead of into an ashtray - I hate to think how many fires he would have started.
It's similar with drinks. Some traumatic thing happens and the person says "I need a drink", then proceeds to take one very small sip and walk away a couple of minutes later, leaving the whole drink there on the bar. Also, unless its' a party, where they serve drinks on the rocks, 'a drink' means straight liquor poured into a large whiskey glass, rarely mixed with anything. I spent a lot of time in bars and lounges as a waitress and bartendar and I don't ever recall a woman ordering whiskey straight. I worked in nice steak houses so maybe it was the wrong clientele, but i put in a lot of time to never have a customer order that way.
Pretty much the same thing goes for food. Often a couple is on a date, and they order a lovely dinner, then get up to dance, and either leave from the dance floor, or get a phone call about some police or reporter thing and off they go. I often feel sorry for the poor waiter who get stiffed on two steak dinners, plus gets it deducted from his paycheck. It also happens in diners and hamburger joints.
In Westerns, why is it that only the star and his friends, and sometimes the leader of the bad guys, wear clean clothes, but everyone else is all grubby and dirty.
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I know its silly, but sometimes I can't help but see these things happening and wonder about them.
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