[Voiceover] We've all had the experience of talking about a long-lost friend with someone, and then out of the blue the phone rings and it's that same long-lost friend. Famous psychobabble quack Carl Jung called these occurrences "synchronicity." Skeptics regard these synchronicities events as mere coincidences. Others posit a pie-in-the-sky cosmic connection linking all things. Take a guess on which side of the argument I fall.
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Man, every time I walk into a gym it gets my blood up.
SWScott Worley
Oh, did you play?
Badminton. We played our tournaments here. See this scar? Shuttlecock injury. Ended my career.
SWScott Worley
Is he kidding?
I don't know. Either way, it's pathetic.
SWScott Worley
Excuse me. [Leaves]
Way to work shuttlecock into the conversation, jackass.
It's one of the funnier words.
Hey there, Socrates. What brings you to these hallowed halls? Boning up on your philosophy? Taking an oral exam? Having sex with your old professor?
Okay, get it out of your system.
Look at you. All blushy.
[Holding an old photograph of Mary and her father] Look at this one. I think you were four, maybe five here.
I don't remember this.
Your father hit corner at Belmont, went shopping at Berghoff's. Eight dollars for a little girl's dress. I almost killed him. The way he fawned. Isn't that crazy? A mother being jealous of her four-year-old daughter.
One way or another, I am going to nail that guy. I mean literally, fillet him, nail his hide to a tree, spread it with jam and watch the squirrels go to town.
He called me ma'am.
Yeah, but he was looking down your shirt when he said it.
Why are you being so nice to me?
[Voiceover] At first glance, one might suppose me walking into the middle of Chris's gambling problem and the arrival of the FBI letter about my father, the gambler, to be cosmically connected events. And who knows, maybe they are. But in the end, the whole happenstance versus master plan debate probably a big waste of time. All that really matters is that we cross paths at an auspicious time. Chris was lucky. He got off with a year suspension, but will still be able to play his senior year. As for me, well...
[Voiceover] I think my least favorite phrase in the human language is "I'm sorry." Nine times out of ten when a person says they're sorry, they're really only sorry they got caught, and now want me to forgive them for something I'm still pissed off about. Which puts me in the unhappy position of either saying, "Up yours" and looking like a total bitch, or saying, "I forgive you" and feeling like a total schmuck. And that's why I hate the phrase...
I’m sorry, but that stewardess had a bad attitude, plain and simple. I don’t know how you can defend that behavior.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps our flight attendant didn’t appreciate being called “stewardess”?
Yeah, well, I didn’t particularly appreciate our stewardess hitting on my travel companion. Just assuming we weren’t a couple. Crap! Damn it! [Raph physical therapy 3:30]
You must be the best girlfriend.
And for the record, there was no "hitting on" taking place. Just a little bit of old fashioned common courtesy.
Really? So you think an invitation to join the mile high club is old fashioned? All right, maybe that's what passes for courtesy these days. Just not what I'd call kickin' the friendly skies old school. And by the way...if the stewardess finds the job title so objectionable, maybe he should have chosen another line of work.
That was beautiful. Bach, suite number three? Not something I've heard on piano before.
LLily
Oh, it was my sister's cello piece. I was just fooling around.
[Voiceover] People generally think of forgiveness as the flip side of contrition, the obligatory response to an apology. It is not. To forgive is to answer the call of our better angels and bear our wounds as the cost of doing business. It is that rarest of things, simple and pure...transcendent... without strings.
[Voiceover] Okay, so Don's a little anal, and maybe Ruth's a bit of a ball buster. Who isn't ? Still, you gotta wonder, if such good people with so much in common can't find happiness together, what hope is there for the rest of us ?
Please explain, in God's name, why you two don't get a divorce. You make each other miserable. Please don't say it's because you're catholic. Lots of catholics get divorced these days. Hell, I'm catholic, I plan on getting divorced one day.
DFDonald Ferguson
It'll be a lucky man who divorces you.
Damn straight.
He was one of the few truly good, selfless people I've ever met.
You know, Ayn Rand's central thesis posits that selflessness is antithetical to good.
A hundred bucks says you die a lonely old man.
DFDonald Ferguson
Shhhhh.
What?! I just spent two days running all over creation thinking you were kidnapped or dead! Half the hobos in Albuquerque are in mourning and Cook's facing murder charges, and you have the balls to shush me?
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