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Di, 25 Oktober 2005 23:50 |
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And while I'm really getting into anecdote telling today, I might as
well launch into my favorite story. It's about James Doohan and
happened when I was dating him in the early 70s. Sorry ladies, but this
is not about sex. No, nothing sexual about it. It was rather painful
instead, for Doohan that is. :D
Well, as I said Jimmy and I were dating in the early 70s. Yours truly,
became quite smitten with the charming James Doohan, when she met him
at a con, and he in turn was very fond of her. Well, most of the times
he was, except for this one occasions where Mr. Doohan felt he'd been
actively attacked by yours truly.
I like to refer to this incident as the E(ye)mergency. Subtitle: The
day Groupie made James Doohan cry
Yours truly, let's just call her Groupie, was getting ready for their
date. Doohan and Groupie were planning to go to the movies with
friends. Taking a look into the mirror Groupie decides her hair needs
some more styling. So she grabs the hairspray.
Mr. Doohan, chose exactly this moment to prove his outstanding sense of
timing and approached Groupie from behind, intending to hug her.
Groupie unaware that Doohan is approaching, while Doohan is unaware of
the weapon in Groupie's hand, the disaster becomes unavoidable.
Doohan hugs Groupie, while she pulls the trigger and sprays her hair .
.. . and Doohan's eye. Ouch! The poor guy must've been in tremendous
pain. His eye looked awful. He claimed I blinded him. Now, let's not
exagerate alright, I said and did what I always do when I have an
emergency. I called my Mom and asked her what to do.
Mom advised Groupie wisely to use an eyewash to get the stuff out of
it. Luckily for Mr. Doohan Groupie had something like that in the
house. Then Groupie asks Mom if she thinks that we should take Scotty
to the hospital. After all we don't want him to lose his eye. That's
when Scotty turned rather pale.
No, I'm not that clueless, I was really just joking. Doohan didn't find
that to be funny. Anyways nurse Groupie tries to save Mr. Doohan's eye
with the eyewash. It seems to work. But we have to keep doing that and
we're running late. Since Doohan doesn't see anything anyways Groupie
decides to cancel their date and calls up her friends.
Damn, they were already on their way. So what do we do now? Drag Scotty
to the cinema despite his pitiful eye-condition? Nnoooo, clever Groupie
calls up the cinema and asks the lady at the counter to tell the couple
(giving the lady a detailed description)that we couldn't come because
Mr. Doohan had an e(ye)mergency.
Anyways next day Jimmy's eye is much better again, we decide to make it
up to my friends by having brunch with them. I'd like to point out that
Mr. Doohan wasn't very happy with Groupie that day and kept poor
Groupie at arms-length. Hey it wasn't my fault! You simply did the
wrong thing at the wrong time. :D
Over brunch we find out that my friends have indeed been informed by
the lady at the counter (Thank you!). But they were rather confused,
because they'd been told that we cancelled because Mr. Doohan couldn't
stop crying. That cracked Jimmy up. He kept laughing about that all
day. And Groupie was very popular with Scotty again. Pheeewww!
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