AD Has Got To Get New Material
May 16, 2008 by alntv
Everyone has one. That one person you work with who drives you crazy. Maybe you work in an office and the guy sits next to your cubicle and is constantly bugging you for staples. Or maybe it’s the woman at the front desk who won’t answer the phone right away, letting it ring for at least 30 seconds each time before picking it up. Or maybe it’s that one person you have to travel with who smells like onions all the time and has the worst breath of anyone on the face of the planet.
Or maybe it’s that really smartass guy who is a professional button pusher who WON’T EVER SHUT UP ABOUT ANYTHING!
Well…that would be MY guy. And here’s the worst thing…dammit if he doesn’t have my number.
Seriously, I like AD. He’s a cool guy (kinda). But he’s an ASS of the highest measure when it comes to running a joke into the ground. Here’s my dilemma…last summer I saw the trailer to the movie “Cloverfield”. Everyone knows I’m a movie junkie. Especially sci-fi. Anyway, I mentioned this trailer to several people with whom I work with. Never thought anything of it, but AD thought it was funny and ran with it. Cloverfield’s been out in theatres and gone and now is out on DVD. AD is STILL running with it. It’s gotten to the point where that’s all he ever jokes about when we work together. I’m exasperated by it and completely defeated.
Here’s how it goes…
“Oh great. AD’s here.”
“Oh, hi Alan. How’s that blog coming along? Ya hear about the movie that’s comin’ out that looks really cool? Oh wait…it went straight to DVD, right? Yeah…that’s a cool movie. Apparently no one else has ever heard of it. What’s it called again? Cloverfield? Oh yeah! Let me ask everyone else if they’ve heard of it…”
And then he’s off yelling into the headset like an idiot. And then, any time I try to talk to anyone in the truck, it starts over. It’s really f*^#$ing annoying and I’m over it already.
This is where I need my brother’s wit. I gotta believe that Frank could give this guy a verbal smackdown of the highest magnitude. But I don’t have that. I’ve never been one with a good comeback. Ever. So now I feel like I’m just done with it. So what do I do? Do I just keep my mouth shut and not say anything for the rest of the baseball season? Do I buy him a copy of Cloverfield and tell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine? Or do I take this guy out back and beat some sense into his thick skull? I’m liking number 3 more and more these days…
But I’ll leave it up to you, dear readers. But make it fast, ’cause I’m getting a little short on temper and I’d hate to make a snap judgement here. Make good? Or death to AD? You decide!
I love sci-fi and fantasy. Chris made fun of me to when I rented Cloverfield because someone told him it was about a mutant whale. It was a great movie, and I’m with buying a copy and shoving it up AD’s *#%. People should really watch before they judge. Needless to say, Chris was so interested he couldn’t go to sleep because he didn’t want to miss the ending.
Wel…..Cloverfield is a sensitive topic. I would just let AD know that you plan on riding him just as hard when he freaks out about “Sex in the City’s” opening weekend…cause you just know he will. Tell him to lay off, the horse died like three months ago and he is still beatin the crap out of it. I was going to end this with a negative comment anout cloverfield, but I won’t. It’s tough because it would be funny and I would laugh and laugh all day. But I am not going to do it…….ARG!!!!!!!!!! Got to go, pressure is building to type something about steady c a m ……….
Please point out to AD that the movie had a record opening for MKL weekend. So you (and I) obviously weren’t the only one impressed by the trailer. Frank may have hated the film, but he won’t deny that he KNEW about it.
And it may not have had the longest box office run in history, but considering what it cost to make, and the fact that those that did like it LOVED it, I doubt that JJ Abrams is regretting the film or its marketing strategy.
Oh, and the kids and I finally saw the splash on the dvd. We had to zoom in and slow-mo it, but we saw it. Woohoo!
Oh, just beat the shit out of him, already.
I”m with Danielle, except I would probably say ‘”crap”. love