when 'real life' mimics art...
You know when an oft used metaphor, clich� or act finally makes sense?
Perhaps it's part of growing older, but the way people act and the things that happen to them in books, films and on television is becoming more and more familiar to me.
I don't mean to say that people have been doing exactly the same things in art for ever (have they?), but rather that many times when I am watching something I have an 'I know what that's like' moment.
It's happening a lot lately.
The other day I had a near miss in my car. If you were watching me on The Josh Show you would have seen it coming a mile away. I was driving along, listening to tunes (New Buffalo) at volume and generally enjoying the drive back to work from Parramatta.
Then I noticed a freakin' fly!
Flies do not belong in the car.
So I'm driving along the road, doing all the driving things one does (looking at the road, refraining from crashing too much), all the while I'm trying to shoo this fly out of the window.
Just like it happens on television, I'm being mindful to keep my eyes on the road, but each time I look away, it's for just a little longer. That damned fly keeps moving a little further from me.
Then I get the bastard. Caught him. Trapped! Ensorcelled.
I look up in my triumph, and not twenty meters from me, in the middle of Victoria Road is a stopped car!
Nooooo!
Brake!
Slide!
Stop!
I'd say about ten centimetres separated us in the end.
Phew.
Like I said, I've seen this scenario play itself out countless times in the media, usually it's at night, the distraction is a dropped CD, a broken radio or a spilled drink, and usually it ends with a jam-sprayed truck or tree, but it felt very familiar.
If anyone was watching The Josh Show and has a tape/rip/capture of the moment and can send it in, lemme know, I'd love to see it.
