High Fidelity

"Hi, drinking luncheon, on a school day? Are you nervous about tomm night?"

"Not really no"

"Umm are you gonna tak to me-or shall I get my paper out"

"No im gonna talk to you, what are you gonna talk to me about"

"Umm im gonna talk to you about whether or not you want to get married to me.Im serious"

"Yeah I know, well thanks a fucking bunch"

"Im sorry but two days ago you were making tapes for that girl –from the Reader"

"Yeah"

"Well forgive me if I don’t think of you as the world’s safest bet. "

“Would you marry me if I was?”

“What brought all this on?”

“I don’t know. I’m just sick of thinking about it all the time”

“About what?”

“This stuff. Love and… settling down and marriage, you know? I want to think about something else”

“I changed my mind. That’s the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard. I do. I will.”

“Just shut up please, I’m trying to explain, okay? That other girl, or other women, --whatever -- I mean, I was thinking that they’re just fantasies. You know? And they always seem really great because there’s never any problems. And if there are, they’re cute problems like, you know, we bought each other the same Christmas present or she wants to go to see a movie that I’ve already seen, you know? And then I come home and you and I have real problems and you don’t even want to see the movie I want to see, period. There’s no lingerie and --”

“I have lingerie”

“Yes, you do. You have great lingerie. But you also have cotton underwear that’s been washed a thousand times, and it’s hanging on the thing and they have it too. It’s just I don’t have to see it because it’s not in the fantasy. Do you understand? I’m tired of the fantasy because if doesn’t really exist. And there are never really any surprises, and it never really --”

“Delivers?”

“Delivers. Right, I‘m tired of it. I‘m tired of everything else for that matter. But I don‘t ever seem to get tired of you. So--”

“I think I know what you mean. But were you really expecting me to say yes?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t really think about it, really. I thought asking was the important part.”

Well you’ve asked. Thank You.


From the film High Fidelity-its hilarious....but maybe-its just what im looking for