You Say Toh-May-Toh, I Say Toh-Mah-Toh

My fiance*, Alexander and I have always loved going to the movies. Before the show, we run into a nearby grocery store or Target to pick up snacks and sodas to smuggle into the theater. I know that they have a rule saying you can't bring outside food into their theater but that is their rule, not mine. Also, I have a rule that it should be criminal to charge people $6 for a box of candy I just bought for $1.50 at the grocery store down the street.

One snowy, New England evening, Alexander and I decide to brave the roads and go to the movies. We pull into the local Shaws Supermarket to buy Milk Duds, a Coke, and a Milky Way bar - yum! We pay and start to gingerly cross the slipery parking lot toward Alexander's silver Escape SUV. If you know me, you know I walk fast - even when I am trying to walk slowly. If you know Alexander, you know he walks slowly - almost feels like he's standing still. Naturally, I get to our car first. As I shake snow off my hair and hop into the passenger seat, I look around to see just how far ahead I am and Alexander is nowhere to be seen. Not surprising.

I'm sitting in the car annoyed that he is so slow that I will miss the previews. I rip open the Milk Duds and pop one in my mouth. After another minute, I grow concerned that maybe Alexander fell in the parking lot. As I start to get out of the SUV I see that there's a wad of money sticking out of the air vent. Hmm, that's not like him at all. Odd. I hop out of the car, search the parking lot for a man down and see nothing.

I'm starting to panic a little and that's when I see Alexander in an SUV, sipping a coke. He's in the WRONG car. HAAAA! He never does anything wrong like that so I tap on the window to bust him, and he rolls it down - wait, how did he do that? Don't you need to have the car on to do that? He takes another sip of soda and says. "where have you been? We are going to be late". Stupidly, I respond, "I was waiting in the car". We both laugh as we realize I had been sitting in the wrong car! He drives me past the car I had been in. Turns out, it was a Pathfinder. Black. He's laughing and already calling a friend to tell him I got in a car that looks nothing like his silver Escape. I still say they look kind of alike. Right? Same difference in my book.

You say Toh-May-Toh, I Say Toh-Mah-Toh.

You say Escape, I say Pathfinder.

* It should be noted that there were nights I would call my folks so upset that all my friends had dates, boyfriends, husbands and I didn't. It didn't seem fair. I mean really, I was pretty wonderful, why couldn't I find a Mr. Wonderful mate?!?! My Mom and Dad (and brother and sister-in-law, and co-workers, and best friend, and strangers I would lament my problems too) said the right person is worth waiting for. Wow, were people right! Alexander is amazing and came onto the scene when I least expected it. More to come about him and me (I'm sure he's thrilled) but I couldn't let this post go up without commenting on how right people were and how lucky I am.