Date Night Surprise
I know it’s not "Fun Friday," but I’ve been reviewing posts from the last few weeks and I think it’s high time we had a little levity around here. With that in mind, let me tell you about the recent date night…with my wife, Emily.
The Friday before my Catalyst trip, I took Emily out for some shopping and dinner. The date was really to celebrate my recent birthday , but my idea of fun is buying clothes for Emily. We made our way around the mall to shop primarily for jeans and shoes. That brought us to the L.S. Ayres department store. Emily and I selected a cool pair of shoes for her and headed over to the register where a nice, young girl greeted us and offered to assist.
As she began to ring up the sale, she said something that has become quite familiar through the years. Looking at Emily, she said, "You remind me of an actress." And, like many people before her, she paused for a moment, and then it clicked. "That’s it. Has anyone told you that you look just like Elisabeth Shue?" Well, the fact is my wife looks very much like Elisabeth Shue, which makes me just about the luckiest (that’s translated "blessed" for the Christians in the crowd) guy around. And, because my wife looks a lot like Elisabeth Shue, we have grown accustomed to this question.
Since we get this question so frequently, I’ve started to respond with a question of my own. I asked the nice, young girl behind the counter, "Who do I remind you of?" Again, she paused, and then she said, "Actually, you do remind me of someone." At which point, I started to get excited because I don’t look like anyone. She looked for a few more moments, began to smile and then exclaimed, "You remind me of my Uncle Dean."
I, of course, was devastated. My jaw dropped. I began to picture what I’m sure you’re picturing. And I thought if she’s Elisabeth Shue, I wonder what she has been thinking all these years being stuck with Uncle Dean.
Then the nice, young girl redeemed the moment. She explained that her Uncle Dean was asked to be a Gucci runway model…probably like these guys…only I’m hoping I’m the much more manly version. For the sake of this post, let’s just pretend that I am.
Needless to say, date night was a success. We walked away from our shoe purchasing transaction feeling very positive about our self images. For at least one night, we were Elisabeth Shue and Uncle Dean the Gucci runway model guy. We enjoyed the rest of our evening, and now we always recommend to our friends that they visit the L.S. Ayres women’s shoe department whenever they date their mates.
I disagree. I don’t think the fact that your wife looks like Elisabeth Shue makes you the luckiest guy in the world. You’ve got it all backwards. I think the fact that Elisabeth Shue looks like your wife makes the husband of Elisabeth Shue one of the luckiest guys in the world. Now, if you’re smart, you’ll erase this comment before Emily sees it and tell her the same thing so you’ll rack up a bunch of points. It will make your next date night that much more fun.
If you had on the pink shirt, well that would make the whole thing come alive.
mark
I went to the Gucci link. It shows a girl in jeans and a lacey type shirt laying on a couch? Now that is a vision of Tony that is unfortunately stuck in my head.
OK, upon my second effort (giving you benifit of the doubt), it took me to the correct “Men’s” page. Maybe just a unlucky error the forst time around?
Tony, you’ve always reminded me of Jeff Goldblum. Whether you think that’s a compliment or not is up to you, I guess. :)
I don’t know if I can include clickable links here or not, but here’s his IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000156/ Compare that pic to yours here on the blog. It’s like you’re the same person!
Wow that is creapy….I had never seen that before and I’ve been at GCC for almost 9 yrs:)
-Erin Harlow
I’ve always thought Tony looked like Jeff Goldblum when Jeff was in the BIG CHILL. :)