This topic fits quite nicely into my experience on Friday. I went on a blind date with someone to see the movie. I am now convinced that my parents and her parents intended for something to happen.
(1) Her parents and my parents suddenly openned up a dialogue a week ago after about 5 years of silence with each other.
(2) She has a car yet her parents asked me to drive her home sometimes and even offered to pay for the gas.
(3) Her mom called me in my dorm room and started questioning about me.
(4) My parents told me that they thought I needed a Vietnamese "friend".
(5) Out of the blue, she contacted me and mentioned about going out to do something... like to dinner.
(6) Last time we saw each other was like 7 years ago. She was mean to me and my cousin because we didn't speak English back then. Although this was all in the past, there's something in my mind that is still saying "warning: probable danger up ahead!"
(7) She dressed up really nicely... actually she dressed up really sexy to go to see Resident Evil with me. Suffice it to say, my alarm was on red alert because I didn't know what her intentions were.
(8) If this was a set up, it was not the first time my parents have tried to set me up with someone. In fact, my parents set my brother up with a girl that later became his wife.
(9) She and I are the only Vietnamese left in our area that are (a) around the age of 20, (b) not married, (c) Catholics [nobody knows I'm an atheist now], (d) in college, meaning well educated, and (e) supposedly fresh.
(10) She tripped and fell, forcing me to extend my arms, grabbed her, and, for about 2 seconds, kept her in my arms. May be I am paranoid... I still can't think of anything that could have made her trip like that.
With that said, the movie scared me, but the facts surrounding our "date" scared me even more.
By the way, I probed her a lot... I mean intellectually, of course. I can't say for certain, but my assessment of her after our initial encounter is that she was an intellectual dud. May be she was just shy or something, but I couldn't get her to engage in any kind of coherent discussion about anything.
Anyway, the movie went by rather quickly, which is what I like. I don't want to see sex or one of those scenes where they cry on each other's shoulders. I want to see actions, more actions, and nothing but actions. That's what I saw in R.E.A.
The Laminator
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