November 03, 2004
small world

Last night I was watching the election at a bar around the corner with my friend John. John and I had a "so-called" bet, so I asked the guy standing next to me his opinion. He was extremely entertaining and we ended up hanging out with him.

After a couple of election hours he asked what both John & I did for a living.

John said "software".

I said "film".

He then asked "do you know Lee Daniels?"

"I know who he is, I saw a film he recently produced a couple of weeks ago" I replied.

"I'm doing some voice-over for him now, he's really great. I, too, saw The Woodsman a couple of weeks ago" he said. "Where did you see it?" he asked.

"Tribeca"

"Me too"

We looked closer at each other and realized that we had sat next to each other at the screening and he was the one who gave me an antihistime during the movie.

I had happened to catch a head cold, the one which is going around, and it hit me during the screening of The Woodsman.

It's a terrible time to get a head cold. I had felt fine before and all of a sudden I was sick. Although it seemed as though half of the people in the theater were also sneezing and coughing.

Anyway, during the movie the fellow next to me said "I don't mean to sound rude, but I just got over a head cold myself and I have an antihistamine if you'd like" and handed me the antihistamine.

As the movie went on, my head became more congested so I had no choice but to take the antihistamine even though I didn't have any water.

So last night while watching the election I was able to thank him for the antihistime which he had given me two weeks prior. Isn't that crazy?

I then asked what brand it was because it was the best antihistamine I had ever taken; it allowed me to get on the subway, go to the market, get some soup, tissues and go home.

He said he had gotten it from Cuba and it has yet to be approved by the FDA, but he has some more in his desk at work if ever I should need it.

Posted to day to day by thereelroundtable at 01:53PM on Nov 3, 2004