Because a friend just sent me a Christmas message and this is what came to mind:
"You know what I've always admired about you, Bunk?"
"No telling, Jimmy."
"Well, you could have bent me over a radio car that first night, but you didn't. You were real gentle."
"It was your first time. I wanted that shit to be special."
Yeah, it's a quote, but I could not send that to list staffed by poets and gender theorists and the like and escape with all my sang-Freud(see what I did there?)
But I guess I love it because it's two people who do NOT say I love you and you are the wind beneath my wings and all that saying that very thing. Even if they do drown it in Scotch and junior-high homo jokes.
It used to be easy for me to say things like that. In high school about the only Superlative I could have really aced was "Most Likely To Look Like An Open Emotional Wound," but, you know, people make fun of that girl, right? Maybe cause they're jerks, maybe cause it's awkward.
So she kind of gets her Chandler Bing on, and learns if she laughs like she doesn't mean it, she can still say most of what she wants.
So, it's in that spirit that I wish
ocvictor Happy Holidays and thank him for always making that shit special.