We’re always encouraging Megan to watch movies with us, movies that she would normally not watch on her own. Door in the Floor, starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger was one such recent example. She watched it, thought it was sad, but pretty good. Midnight in Paris was another.
So Megan has started doing the same thing to us. She suggests movies that we would normally not watch. Usually they’re ones with teens or post-teens as stars. Zombieland was one such movie. It seemed pretty stupid at first, a campy spoof on vampire movies. But it turned out to be fairly good. We were surprised.
Then her next offering was Superbad. During the first twenty minutes, Trish and I thought the movie was apply titled. It did seem pretty bad, a sophomoric story about three high school nerds who are obsessed with sex, so much so that it seemed the main character was a guy named Dick.
The plot involved getting booze for a party, and one the character manages to get a fake ID. When he proudly shows it off, his friends can’t believe he chose only a last name, McLovin.
To our surprise, we found ourselves laughing at the ridiculous situations the three characters encounter on their evening out in search of booze and sex. It’s definitely a screwball teenage passage movie as the three guys are all graduating within weeks and heading to college. And I have to admit it did remind me of my own high school madness.
So here’s the synchronicity. The next evening Megan and I went to the dog park. Trish was busy with other stuff. While hanging around the doggie swimming pool, I nudged Megan and told her to look at the t-shirt a kid standing nearby was wearing.
She smiled, walked up to him and said, “Bad ass t-shirt, Dude.” Across the chest in large letters, it read: McLovin.
Until the night before I’d never heard of that 3-year-old movie or McLovin. So as soon as McLovin shows up on my radar, McLovin reappears at the dog park.
A pretty bad ass synchro, right?
too stinkin’ funny!!! i was LOL with the dude named dick to start with – and then the bad ass tee shirt sent me to the floor! what a fun day – fun movie and fun synchro!
time for some mclovin t shirts!
i’m mclovin’ that idea!!!
On his fake ID, ‘McLovin’ also made it so that he was 25 and he was an organ donor. ‘Why 25, not 21?’ his friends asked. So I noticed a McLovin t-shirt on line that said: ‘I am McLovin…the 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor.’
You guys are cracking me up!
This really does have elements of the mischievous trickster!
Loved the syncho and all of the comments. Life is so much fun!
Is this a synchro or trickster?
Things like this happen to me all of the time…recently on facebook a little chat began talking about pickles . It was a crazy discussion. Later that day our local village paper came and in it was an article about an upcoming pickle fair!
I had to close the paper and open it again because I just couldn’t believe it. A pickle fair? C’mon! But there it was!
Another was about a Beatles song that many of us said we liked. the next day I am in Starbucks and that same song is playing and then Later I get in my car and 2 stations are playing Beatles songs.
I sometimes think it is someone trying to make me notice the magic that is in everyday life. But a Pickle Fair!! LOL!
Both! Yours are great!
Hilarious!
Obviously, the MacGregors are syncro magnets.
And the dog park, too!
Speaking of Seth Rogen (writer of Superbad) have you seen the movie “Paul” yet.
Seth Rogen does the voice of Paul the alien.I saw this movie with my younger son,
24 hours after after seeing Bob Dylan play right before our eyes at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia.So we found it even more funny on a synchronistic level.
Keep an ear out for the Dylan reference in the movie to get what I’m talking about here.
It’s a movie I’m sure you will like.
Darren, Yeah, we’ve seen it, and I did catch the Dylan reference. We don’t watch many comedies, but that was a good one.
You could go one better and buy your dog a “Mc Lovin” shirt .
https://www.zazzle.com.au/mclovin_dog_shirt-155420962762385651
Then the kid with the “McLovin” t-shirt will be in for a bit of a synchro himself next time he’s at the dog park when your dog is around .-)