The EllGab Slice of Life Thread

[Rikki Gins]

Feel free to write about your past experiences here.  They don't have to be related to current events, or any other subject for that matter.  Any past experience is fair game.  How much you want to relate is up to you.  For example, here is a slice of life experience that popped into my head just the other day...

Years ago.  It was the middle of winter and there was a cold spell.  I was walking out back, marveling at how icy everything was.  I was about in the middle of the yard when I heard a strange sound.  It was a buzzing kind of sound, almost like something vibrating.  I turned toward the sound just in time to see my hanging bird bath (a glazed terra cotta dish) break in half.  The two pieces fell down but they didn't hit the ground.  They were dangling in the air, still attached to some small chains that were tied to the tree.  Now that would have been something to catch on film, I remember thinking. 

[KSM]

I like it!

I'll have a few tasteful slices to add.

[Rikki Gins]

I like it!

I'll have a few tasteful slices to add.

Great, @KSM!  Looking forward to them.

[Walks_At_Night]

Hooray!  I've been waiting on this thread. Got some ramblings in mind for it.

[Bart Ell]

Picture it - Cannes, France - mid 90's.
I am sitting at a hotel bar minding my own beeswax when this familiar looking man plops down beside me.
He mumbles a greeting in French and I answer him in English for reasons I will get into later.
He asks me if I am there for work and I let him know that my girlfriend is and I am tagging along for a few days.
The conversation turns to pizza and my new pal says he hasn't tried it.
I tell him about the oil - the same stuff Art Bell hijacked and called Pizza Punch - and he is getting interested.
The time comes where I have to go so I say goodbye to the man who said to call him Bobby.
2 days later I am back at the bar and Bobby is already seated and waves me over.
He tells me he has tried the pizza and he was not impressed.
I ask about the oil and he said they did not have any.
If they didn't have the oil then you have not tried the right pizza, Bobby.
I tell him he needs to go to a place off the beaten path to have it.
And then it happens, Rikki.
Bobby asks me DO YOU GOT A PLACE?
You bet your ass I got a place, Bobby!
10 minutes later we are in my rental car heading out for pizza.
I am chuckling to myself.
Life has taken me down one of those paths again.
How the hell have I ended up taking De Niro for pizza?

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Picture it - Cannes, France - mid 90's.
I am sitting at a hotel bar minding my own beeswax when this familiar looking man plops down beside me.
He mumbles a greeting in French and I answer him in English for reasons I will get into later.
He asks me if I am there for work and I let him know that my girlfriend is and I am tagging along for a few days.
The conversation turns to pizza and my new pal says he hasn't tried it.
I tell him about the oil - the same stuff Art Bell hijacked and called Pizza Punch - and he is getting interested.
The time comes where I have to go so I say goodbye to the man who said to call him Bobby.
2 days later I am back at the bar and Bobby is already seated and waves me over.
He tells me he has tried the pizza and he was not impressed.
I ask about the oil and he said they did not have any.
If they didn't have the oil then you have not tried the right pizza, Bobby.
I tell him he needs to go to a place off the beaten path to have it.
And then it happens, Rikki.
Bobby asks me DO YOU GOT A PLACE?
You bet your ass I got a place, Bobby!
10 minutes later we are in my rental car heading out for pizza.
I am chuckling to myself.
Life has taken me down one of those paths again.
How the hell have I ended up taking De Niro for pizza?

Wow!  A positive "I met DeNiro" Story!  Rare, I think.  Most of the stories I have seen suggest that he can be a grade-A prick. 

[Bart Ell]

Wow!  A positive "I met DeNiro" Story!  Rare, I think.  Most of the stories I have seen suggest that he can be a grade-A prick.

Funny you should say that...

About 5 years later I get a call from a childhood friend.
His girlfriend is a makeup artists working on a movie in Montreal.
He sits in her chair and is a grumpy Gus.
She is trying to make small talk with him and getting grumbles back.
She heard the story so she mentions she knows someone who went to have pizza with him in Cannes.
He looks at her and laughs and says the pizza was ok but he did like the oil.
It was the only non-grumbled sentence he said to her in their week together.

[MAX]

Around 20 years ago I was schedule to fly for work from Ecuador to Cali Columbia. We got hung up in Ecuador for a few more days and rescheduled. The original flight crashed into a volcano killing everyone.

Fast forward I was scheduled for a flight to SF from Newark for work. I moved the flight to a week later as we had issues with the merger going on. That original flight was the 911 flight that crashed in PA.  The other crazy part was my brother was scheduling on the Boston 911 flight but took an earlier one.

I decided I should stay away from planes.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Around 20 years ago I was schedule to fly for work from Ecuador to Cali Columbia. We got hung up in Ecuador for a few more days and rescheduled. The original flight crashed into a volcano killing everyone.

Fast forward I was scheduled for a flight to SF from Newark for work. I moved the flight to a week later as we had issues with the merger going on. That original flight was the 911 flight that crashed in PA.  The other crazy part was my brother was scheduling on the Boston 911 flight but took an earlier one.

I decided I should stay away from planes.

Wow!  Man, that's cutting it tooooo close!

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Funny you should say that...

About 5 years later I get a call from a childhood friend.
His girlfriend is a makeup artists working on a movie in Montreal.
He sits in her chair and is a grumpy Gus.
She is trying to make small talk with him and getting grumbles back.
She heard the story so she mentions she knows someone who went to have pizza with him in Cannes.
He looks at her and laughs and says the pizza was ok but he did like the oil.
It was the only non-grumbled sentence he said to her in their week together.

I saw a YT vid not long ago where a guy talks about sharing an elevator with his kids, then him.  It goes south rather quickly.  DeNiro decided to take the stairs.  Wish I could find the vid again.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

My wife and I were in China back in 2007.  We were in the middle of a city of nine million people and I ran into a guy I went to high school with.  It is truly a small world. 

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Funny you should say that...

His girlfriend is a makeup artists working on a movie in Montreal.

I wonder if they were filming The Score?  Good movie. 

[Bart Ell]

I wonder if they were filming The Score?  Good movie.

I had a look and it was.
I know this because the makeup artist girlfriend was also excited to tell me there was a guy playing a slow adult in it.
My love of slow adults in movies is very well known.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

I had a look and it was.
I know this because the makeup artist girlfriend was also excited to tell me there was a guy playing a slow adult in it.
My love of slow adults in movies is very well known.

Haha!  DeNiro, Brando (last movie) and Ed Norton playing a slow adult.  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. 

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[Bart Ell]

Haha!  DeNiro, Brando (last movie) and Ed Norton playing a slow adult.  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. 

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I saw it but the only part I remember is OK THANK YOU and still find myself saying it like that to this day.