Tonight is 99 cent margarita night at La Tapatia in beautiful downtown Monmouth. Naturally, I had no cash, but had worked up some credit with a friend (friend 1)who was willing to head out and make tonight a rowdy evening in anticipation of her having to go face school kids at daybreak. We went for Mexican food and watered-down (okay, not much) drinks with my bestest friend (friend 2) and her son, as well as the nephew of the friend who was paying my way tonight.
We are, by our very genetic code, a bunch of rowdies (or, maybe it's because we're all 45 years old or older, so we don't really worry about what people think). At any rate, the restaurant was not terribly crowded, so we made a bit of a scene, entertaining the good people who run the place, before finally heading over to my bestest friend's place to watch a movie...
We'd rented the "family appropriate" film before, on DVD, and the disc was so scratched and filthy it froze in scene 4 and we couldn't get anything out of it, so tonight, we decided to give it a go again. Friend 1 drove by the video store to pick up the same film again, to see if we could have better luck this time. As she was checking out the disc, she asked the clerk what happens if it doesn't play, if dirt makes it skip and freeze. Clerk suggested "a soft paper towel and some Windex ought to fix it." I now understand why only the newest of the new DVDs actually play when you rent them locally. Certainly this one didn't. It froze right before the denoument. sheesh.
Anyway, we fiddled with it, and cleaned it with a soft cloth, and buffed and polished it, and finally got it to play all but about five minutes. It left us with a big question.
What we all want to know is...
Who came up with all those great names for heroes and villains in the marvellously silly "Sky High"?
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