Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Scripts do not get this good ...

and know/no I didn't type this out. I searched and found it somewhere. But this is proof that this was some good shit, as only I would say. If you haven't read my earlier posts, this is a monologue from When Harry Met Sally, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite movies.

SALLY: When Joe and I started seeing each other we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to live together but we didn't want to get married because every time anyone we knew got married it ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It's true. It's one of the secrets no one ever tells you.I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids and...well actually my one girlfriend who has kids ... Alice... and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore.

She didn't even complain about it now that I think about it. She just said it matter of factly. She said that they were up all night and they were both exhausted all the time. The kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them... and Joe and I used to talk about it and we'd say "you know, we're so lucky we have this wonderful relationship. We can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in. We can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice."And then... one day... I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon 'cause I promised to take her to the circus and we were in the cab playing "I Spy". I spy a mailbox. I spy a lamppost. And she looked out the window and saw this man and this woman with these two little kids and the man had one of the little kids on his shoulders. And she said "I spy a family." And I started to cry... you know, I just started crying.

And I went home and I said, "the thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moments notice."Anyway, we talked for a long time and I said "this is what I want," and he said "well, I don't." And I said "well, I guess it's over," and he left. And the thing is I... I feel really fine. I am over him. I mean I really am over him and that was it for him. That was the most he could give and every time I think about it I am more and more convinced that I did the right thing.