Years ago I (I would have been a 30 something dude at the time) was talking to a coworker of mine and I made a Princess Bride reference and he had no clue what I was talking about. He would have been roughly the same age.
I immediately started giving him shit. “How in the hell have you not seen The Princess Bride?!”
“Um, cause I’m a dude?”
It took me like an hour to convince him I wasn’t messing with him and that he needed to see it. “It’s playing on at least one channel 24/7, 365. You have to watch it”, I said.
I saw him a couple of weeks later and he was like “okay. You were right, I’m an idiot, that was fantastic.”
When my now 14yo son was little I decided he was the right age to appreciate it. He told me "I don't want to watch a princess movie". I said fine and watched it by myself because it's one of my favorites. I eventually got him to watch it with me and now he loves it. When asked he'll say "little me was dumb" 😂
I worked in a high velocity distribution center and it was pretty much all dudes. Most cantankerous bunch of people. Metal on the radio and chew or cigarettes 24/7 types
We ended up having a huge discussion about the Princess Bride. Like a deeper conversation about Westley and the Dread Pirates
Never, ever thought I’d see this but it was surreal and cool all at once
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u/pinkphiloyd 3h ago
Years ago I (I would have been a 30 something dude at the time) was talking to a coworker of mine and I made a Princess Bride reference and he had no clue what I was talking about. He would have been roughly the same age.
I immediately started giving him shit. “How in the hell have you not seen The Princess Bride?!”
“Um, cause I’m a dude?”
It took me like an hour to convince him I wasn’t messing with him and that he needed to see it. “It’s playing on at least one channel 24/7, 365. You have to watch it”, I said.
I saw him a couple of weeks later and he was like “okay. You were right, I’m an idiot, that was fantastic.”
One of my crowning achievements in life.