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Home » Articles » Cool Tools
Garden State's helmet-wearing heroine laughs it off
by Jenni Prokopy, the Editrix
We now own the movie Garden State, which I totally love, and while watching it last night I found my new fave ChronicBabe movie quote.
Zach Braff’s character, Andrew, and his new friend/flirtation partner Sam (Natalie Portman) are talking about the funk he’s been in for years. Continuous overuse of a cornucopia of anti-depressants has left him in such a thick fog that the only acting parts he’s offered are for retarded characters, a situation which he loathes but Sam thinks is hilarious. She guffaws; he takes umbrage. Then:
Sam: If you can’t laugh at yourself, life’s gonna seem a whole lot longer than you’d like.
Andrew: Alright, so what are we laughing at you about?
Sam: I lied again. I have epilepsy.
Andrew: Which part are we laughing about?
Sam: I had a seizure at the law office where I work, and they told me that their insurance wouldn’t cover me unless I wore preventative covering.
Andrew: What’s preventative covering?
Sam: The helmet I was wearing. (Andrew cringes.) Oh come on – that’s funny. That’s really funny. I’m the only person who wears a helmet to work who isn’t putting out fires or racing for NASCAR. I mean, what do you do? I can’t quit, I mean, their insurance is amazing. So what do you do? You laugh, you know? I’m not saying I don’t cry, but in between, I laugh, and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry.
Talk about a cool chick. I don’t know if I could wear a helmet to work in an office and not feel like a goofball. It took me a few weeks just to ease into wearing wrist braces for typing because my co-workers were so weird about them, and those are innocuous and beige. I did eventually get comfortable in them when I started calling them my Wonder Woman bracelets and miming bouncing bullets at staff meetings—once I got folks (and myself) laughing about them, everything was cool.
Have a funny story about your equipment? Come on – share it with the chicks.
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Posted: 6/1/2005 in Cool Tools | Also posted in: Inspiration
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