Since LindaJ was kind enough to nominate Alex Cabot of Law & Order SVU in response to yesterday's post, I thought I would share a quick story.
Last week, Wife and I went to go meet a broker to look at an apartment here in Manhattan. Wife left work early and I packed up from the library, then we set out to meet this broker. The broker caused us extensive irritation. While we stood outside the building waiting for him, he called Wife's cell phone to inform us that he was unable to show the apartment that day - and he would like to reschedule for the next. Yes, we were thrilled.
In our attempt to make lemonade out of those lemons, we decided to spend that hour enjoying the city. We picked up some dinner, then decided to stroll down some streets we had never explored on our way home.
As we casually walked and talked, we noticed several movie trailers surrounding us. That's a rather common occurrence around here, but it did make us perk up. As we looked around, we saw a crew unloading cameras and props. We also saw a good number of private security guards. We began to look a bit more closely and we noticed that many of them were wearing shirts, jackets, and/or hats that said, "Law & Order SVU."
Apparently, we stumbled into the middle of a Law & Order shoot.
4 comments:
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
*back of head blows clean off*
Lindaj, such colorful comments. Our readers are probably more entertained by your comments than the body of the blog.
I would invite you to turn green with envy with our SVU experience, but we didn't actually see anything. Every week or so we see some sort of film shooting, but we generally have no idea what it is for.
Wife did find herself in the middle of a shooting for the movie "Sex in the City" a few months back.
Hey, I do what I can to keep you alive. Like in the olden days, right? ;o)
And seriously, stuff like this just leaves me shaking my head and wondering how it came to pass that you are living MY life, the life I'm meant to have, and I'm here in the Great Southwest with three kids, four dogs, a client list that strongly resembles a Jerry Springer line-up, in a three-bedroom rancher in a town without a Barnes & Noble. HOW did that happen??
LindaJ, yes, I'll always appreciate the humor you bring to the table. Even on the most stressful of days you were always able to make me laugh.
And, seriously, while I have no complaints about my life - what's odd is that this really was never my dream. I never envisioned we would settle down in NYC. Frankly, I imagined a life more similar to yours (ok, my dream never contained the Jerry Springer line-up either).
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