No Reservations
Elliott and I went to the movies last night. The movie theatre in Dublin looks like a Madonna concert every weekend, its unbelievable. There isn’t a movie theater for miles, so people drive from who knows where to our neighborhood to wind down and catch a movie. The new releases are always sold out, so our original hope of seeing Matt Damon in Bourne was shot down. So I pulled the ‘my turn’, girl pick on Elliott and we decided to see No Reservations. I had no idea that this was a tear jerker chick flick, I thought it was a happy girl meets boy flick. Save yourself the $18 if you want to cry that hard read the obituaries or see if there is a funeral you can attend. At one point I heard a girl (I assume it was a girl although I could be wrong) crying so hard a few rows back I was sure she must have lost her mother young like the little girl in the movie. I couldn’t even really relate to any of the characters and I was a mess, at one point my nose was so clogged with snot I couldn’t even breathe, ridiculous.
Earlier I wrote the word unbelievable. That reminds me… Our company hosted a speaker in Reno last week that Elliott was able to attend, I wasn’t able to go because I went to Las Vegas for a separate work function. Anyway the speaker was a Vistage speaker, Boaz. Pete was able to invite him to speak to our company after recruiting a new member to Vistage. I have been in a Key group for Vistage for the last few months now so I have heard about Boaz. Just about every person I know who has been in Vistage for awhile has seen Boaz, it’s a rite of passage. I am bummed I missed it. But Elliott relayed some of his stories to me. My favorite is Boaz suggests responding to the typical questions “How are you” or “How is business” with “Unbelievable!”. Everyone says good, even great isn’t GREAT anymore its just a common regurgitated response, but Unbelievable spurs emotion, to the person who posed the initial question this response is startling. I heard this suggestion from Elliott after flying back home on a day that started at 3:40am. I asked him if an equally impressive response would be “Exhausted!” He thought not.