Life Imitates Art: Episode 2 (Me and Jerry Maguire)

Recently we had a layoff at my job a few months ago that saw my boss and co-worker let go. So then I had to assume the workload of three people. That first week was very stressful and everyone kept asking was I alright. Making sure I wasn't going to snap or have a meltdown. So one day I kind of re-enacted the scene from Jerry Maguire, where he gets fired and tells everyone that he's not going to do what they think he's going to do, which is flip out. I did the same thing around like 4 or 5 people. The only difference was that I was doing it as a spoof. I think one person caught on that I was doing the Jerry Maguire scene. Which is a like a quarter of the audience. So that's pretty good I guess. Just another episode of my life imitating art that I wanted to share. Here's the clip of Tom Cruise as Jerry, not flipping out. Mind you my scene doesn't have me taking any fish or asking my secretary to come with me. Well I don't have a secretary or fish for that matter...and I didn't get laid off. So I have that going on for me...

Life Imitates Art: Episode 1 (Jurassic Park...I'm Jeff Goldblum...for like 2 minutes)

You know sometimes how certain things in your life, be it at home or work or wherever, can resemble movies? Well maybe because I love movies so much I can see things more than others. Like when something happens I can immediately think of a certain movie that has a similar scene of what I am doing or going through. So I thought I would share some recent stories about my life and movies crossing over to become one.


First story involves Jurassic Park. And before anyone says.."Monty, really you saw actual dinosaurs running around?" No I didn't but there was something that happened that made me think of the scene where Laura Dern and the guy who is like Crocodile Dundee go looking for the others after the T-rex has made it's big intro. They stumble across Jeff Goldblum and load him into the back seat of the jeep with a hurt leg. They take off and soon the T-rex gives chase.

Ok not one of my smartest moves.....

Well at work, where I get to test the golf carts we build, we have this huge test track with lots of obstacles that the vehicles must go over. Like curbs, potholes, huge mounds, a sandpit, a diagonal ditch, gravel, water pit..all kinds of cool stuff. Well we also have this straightaway section where a vehicle came achieve top speed. I was with 2 other people in a vehicle called a 4 passenger car that has a rear seat that faces toward the back. That's where I was sitting while two other people were upfront. And the car was electric so it could only go about 12 mph. Well my boss at the time before our company had a recent layoff came tearing behind us in one of our all terrain diesel vehicles. Those things can go about 25-30 mph. And he got up on us really fast and that's when I turned to the driver, mimicking Jeff Goldbum.."Must go faster!"

I'm trying to be all brave but I was just as scared as Laura was...

Of course no one got the quote because the driver was like "I'm going as fast as I can Monty".
And I tried to say that I was just joking...you know Jurassic Park, chase scene..T-rex...all I got was the sound of crickets.


So this was episode one of my frequent movie/life crossovers. I have tons more. Will be sharing them all. And here is the clip that shows the scene what I am talking about. So just imagine me as Jeff but without a t-rex chasing me! That and no Laura Dern!