A conversation with my husband regarding his new job, which involves the molding of impressionable young minds:
Patti: You’re like Michelle Pfeiffer in that movie with Gangsta’s Paradise!*
Husband: Dangerous Minds.
Patti: No, wait! You’re like that guy in Stand and Deliver!
Husband: You mean Edward James Olmos.
Patti: Was “Lean on Me” in Stand in Deliver or was Lean on Me another movie about disenfranchised youth?** I can’t remember…
Husband: [Stares]
Patti: Wait! WAIT! You know who you are? You’re the best of all of the troubled-teen teachers… do you know where I’m going with this?
Husband: [Stares more, looks a little bewildered.]
Patti: YOU ARE MARK HARMON IN SUMMER SCHOOL!
Husband: The hotter of the teachers?
Patti: THE HOTTEST OF THE TEACHERS. And wasn’t Kirstie Alley in that movie?
Husband: Yes.
Patti: I will totally be Kirstie Alley in summer school, she was hot.
*You singin’ that now? You singin’ it? YOU’RE WELCOME.***
**It was a totally different movie about disenfranchised youth.
***Here, let me get that out of your head.