# 10 - I like the word...

The Top 10 Funniest/Best Memories of My 50 years on this planet...

# 10 I like the word...

We'll get to the end of that phrase shortly.  But first the Deb Disclaimer.  These aren't necessarily the 10 absolute funniest memories of my 50 years.  And I decided to take out the Twilight Zone weird funny memories to save for another time. 

Therefore I changed the title to the Top 10 Funniest/Best Memories of My 50 years to include one memory that my kids will either cringe at when they read it or their hearts will melt. 

This means that:
a) Deb hasn't had a very funny life.
b) Deb has too many memories that are funny but that may embarrass others.
c) Deb is sappy and wants to include memories that aren't funny ha-ha but make her smile.
d) Deb's best memories involve her own children.
e) all of the above.
f) B, C and D.

So far the Top 10 Things I've Learned in My 50 Years hasn't changed.  But this is me.  Anything's possible.  As I said at the beginning of this blog, I'm learning this whole blog world, and this isn't an English paper that I am turning in for a grade.

So on to # 10.  This story is fairly recent and involves my friend, P, my daughter, S, and my new son-in-law, K, only before he was my son-in-law.

We had gone to a movie.  If I remember right we had gone to see the Adam Sandler movie "Grown Ups."  P had fixed the popcorn.  Which, if you've never had P's movie popcorn, you need to invite her to go to a movie with you one time just for the popcorn.  The woman has a gift with popcorn - that is if you like to eat really good popcorn with lots of "butter" and salt.  If you are one of those health nuts who eats your popcorn bald and bland, well, don't bother wasting a good movie theater popcorn trip with P on yourself.  Save them for those of us who appreciate good popcorn.  I think, but I'm not sure, that P was whisked out to Niagra to join S&K for one night on their honeymoon just to fix the movie theater popcorn.  It's that good.

The movie hadn't started.  We hadn't even gotten to previews yet.  I, for one, love previews, by the way.  I am one of those who hates to get to a movie late and miss the previews.  I'm silly that way.  Anway, we are snacking (read: scarfing) on P's yummy movie theater popcorn and somehow we start talking about words.  We often start to talk about words.  It's a hazard of being word geeks.  I say "we" but it was really only us chicks - P, S and myself.  Only not in that order.  It was P, then me, then S and then K.  But us girls get to saying that we like the word "rogue" - that it's one of those words that sounds like what it means.  It was probably prompted by something we saw on the screen that is the previews' previews - those ads and stills that they now show on the screen between movies.  And maybe it was the popcorn, or maybe it was just how cool and hip and funny we girls are, but we are feeling pretty hip in our assessment about how great the word "rogue" is.

And if I recall right, K, is sitting on the end, eating his popcorn pile and texting on his phone with his military / train / car buddies.  We think that this is another one of those moments when girls believe guys aren't paying any attention.  You know what I'm talking about.  We do it all the time - because often times they aren't listening.  They are too busy texting on their phones with their military / train / car / sports buddies, right?

Well, ladies, we were wrong this time.  K was listening.  Unbeknownst to us, K was getting ready to join the conversation.

"I like the word 'bookkeeper,'" says K. 

Now maybe you had to be there, maybe you needed to have just been enjoying P's Nirvana movie theater popcorn, but we cracked up over his statement!

But being the Random K that he is; he is totally serious.  He really likes the word "bookkeeper." 

"Double O, double K, double E, all in a row."  Which made us laugh even more.  But ya gotta respect a guy who recognizes his triple double letters.  Random or no.

And now, I like the word "bookkeeper," too.