It happened once that when I was a projectionist… I met a guy who apparently never had good sex. He had a gorgeous girlfriend, but he liked to cheat on her. Plus, he liked to brag about his exploits to the fellow projectionists. This young lady was in some of my college classes (a pleasant young woman by all means), and came to the theater often… and I just felt sorry for this particular person whom my supervisor (and fellow UNT student) was taking for granted. So, one day, just after a projection-booth meeting, I called him on the issue. I looked down at the floor, and kicked at the tiles and said, “Robert, I guess you’ve never had good sex before?” He rolled his eyes, and garbled out something like, “What the hell did you just say?” “Yep, you heard me… ‘cause if you’d found it, you’d stay with it. It’s the same as any other good thing… the better it is, the more you’d want to be around that particular thing, above all other things. Instead, you wander aimlessly..."
Now, the fellow didn’t take too kindly to this sort of questioning - and he didn’t really have any response – but I and my fellow projectionists never had to hear another conquest tale for as long as he still worked in our department. Plus, we had a good laugh for a couple of weeks at the rake’s expense. Not mending his ways, the dubious Rob was fired a few months after our confrontation... the boyfriend of a 16 year-old girl reported to the theater managers that old Rob had been having intimate relations on the roof of the building complex with said underage female… At about the same time, he seemed to dissapear from the North Texas college scene. For a short while, I had begun to think maybe I'd been wrong in my hypothesis... but In this case, The Dave's supposition proved correct.
This was back in 1997, around the times of the shootings at the AMC Grand (which I fortunately missed while on a Road Trip in the Rocky Mountains).
Whats funny is you knew your audience... and got away with it. That argument wouldn't have flown in other settings, like philosophy class!
Posted by: Professor Xavier | February 12, 2006 at 12:25 PM