Annoying Autobiographical Pause #300
September 23, 2008 - Author: newscoma - Comments are closedHe has a shock of premature gray hair and everyday that he’s not on the road as a truck driver, he is sitting at Cadillac’s watching his “stories.”
We call him Mouse as that is his name.
The power went out Friday and so Badger, SQ and I went down for an early brew as well as some fellowship at the local tavern. He was watching Days of Our Lives.
I haven’t seen DOOL in roughly 25 years because it was my grandmother’s favorite soaper and I grew up, went to work and, quite frankly, forgot about it.
The old faces were still there. Hope and Bo (Hope looks like Skeletor) and even Julie was still around.
Apparently Stefano has come back from the dead roughly 20 times, as has Victor. Mouse was explaining to us what was going on which was primarily the same thing that was going on back in the day when I used to watch it with my Nanny. Badger and I stopped in again yesterday for just a second as we were out taking some photos, and he was at it again.
The kicker, the joyful blessing of our Mouse encounter, was this doozy of a line from the soap.
“My porn name is Misty Circles. My dad gave me that name.”
We laughed until we cried.
We asked Mouse about his addiction to his stories. He replied, “Everyone sleeps together and nobody works. My kind of life.”
We laughed some more.
As yesterday I was having an existential crisis about my very own psyche, my purpose in this world and walking through a bit of fear (which happens sometimes) I have to say that it was good to laugh.
Categories: Tennessee - Tag: Annoying Autobiographical Pause, Days of Our Lives
Discussion (4 Comments)
Ohhhhh you’re making me miss Days! Employment and soap-watching just don’t mix. Of course, I could catch it everynight on SoapNet, but I guess I don’t really care that much.
And good call on Hope = Skeletor.
I’m a nearly 30-year viewer of “General Hospital”. Top that, Mouse!
Also, back in the late 80s, I met Peter Reckell (“Bo Brady”) of DOOL at a TV talk show I attended. Very hairy, he was.
ok, admission: i skipped school in high school (yes, a gazillion years ago) to watch Bo snag Hope away from marrying some other guy…he rode up on his harley and whisked her away in her wedding dress with Bonnie Tyler’s “i need a hero” in the background.
and i’ll be waiting for that for the rest of my life…
hopeless romantic, i am
Yup. That one actually used to be the preferred soap of my entire high school (our class at least), since it came on after school, and we frequently had “Days” parties all the time. I stopped watching it regularly around 1986 or so, maybe 1985. Sometime in college.
So I too was completely shocked when I caught it not too long ago and so very little had changed. Other than some new characters (most of whom were “babies” when I was in school), I pretty much was completely able to follow everything that was going on, like I’d last watched it last year instead of 22-23 years ago.
Hope has forever annoyed me tho (Skeletor is right).
The best days ever were with Tony and Anna diMera. I understand Tony came back at some point during my absence, but those two were a total hoot back in the “old Days”.