I have been spending many nights in recently, which I am not overly unhappy about (truth be told I’d give my right arm to be out getting absolutely trashed and flirting inappropriately with boys this weekend) as I have managed to be saving my pennies for my perilous road trip in October.
And, with all this time on the cold winter evenings, I have been watching a lot of movies. Movies which I know have happy endings.
Ma doesn’t get it. She is always trying to get us to spend more time together, but when I suggest watching a lovely rom-com she complains that they are all the same and are predictable and suggests a movie which I will cry all the way through and where everybody dies. Blugh.
I like predictable. When I go and see a movie I like knowing that the two leads will flirt, argue and fall out, only to be reunited at the end of the story in a smouldering embrace. A guaranteed happy ending, and I am guaranteed to come out with a smile on my face. I like watching movies that I have already scene. The most watched DVD in my collection is the Hugh Grant romantic comedy boxed set.
Ma now REFUSES to watch a Hugh Grant film. Never mind the fact that I took her to Bridget Jones Diary and she loved it, and laughed all the way through. When I offered to take her to Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason she refused because it had Hugh Grant in it and his movies are predictable.
Well I would like to say “Thank You” to Hugh Grant, Katherine Heigl and all the other stars of chick flicks with providing me with unbelievable love stories and happy endings.
PS. I say unbelievable because there is NO way Andie McDowall would have fallen in love with a man who wore slippers outside in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
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