Better Off Dead

Oh ugh, Wednesday had such a bad start!
No fears, I will not tell you about it, no one would believe that tale!
I barely do!

But, I got up, switched on the TV and there was a very familiar movie playing.  Yeah, "Better Off Dead", one of my favorites as the old Kris - so I sat back to watch.

Good Lord!  Someone whom must have known my life in high school, wrote the story of my messed up teenage years!

There are differences for sure:
Cusack has a father at home - mine was missing in action
His mother was a lovable loonie - mine was literally insane, then disappeared
He had an obnoxious brother - mine was a gifted sister
His dead car was a Camaro - mine was an Austin Healy
He had a girlfriend before the French girl - Helen was my first girlfriend (still do not know why though!)
He made the big race and won - I tore every tendon and ligament in both legs
He drove his Camaro home - mine never did run

But, yeah that movie was the story of my high school years, with very minor differences, as noted above!

And I got to thinking about those days and how utterly clueless I was about life, the universe and everything.  Most teenagers are, but I was way behind the curve on that score, and for most of my life!  I can only testify that in the last few years have I been awaken to reality - a reality I really did not want to meet head on.  Whom could have predicted such pain from being clueless?  Yeah, anyone with a brain and not behind the curve.  Sigh ....

So, interestingly, a movie from my past I still like and laughed over even today.

As for the rest of Wednesday - oh ugh ...  may I not have to live through that again!  Satan has a way of always attacking weak links - and mine goes off with regularity.  Unnecessary ugliness, things said which are uncalled for - and in the end it is always my fault .....

And it brought some surprises as well - so completely unexpected!  I will tell you more on Monday!