Every week I meet my friends Stacey, Tracey, and Gina for lunch. We always make each other laugh, so lunch is perpetually a festive occasion. But sometimes the topic turns to television and pop culture and when this happens, Tracey gets a little lost.
Tracey's not opposed to watching TV, but she's always been more of a sports-and-news (and brown liquor) kind of gal. Slowly we're bringing her around and she's starting to get it when we, say, quote Sue Sylvester or mention last night's Real Housewives.
I like to take some credit for this because I gave her a pop culture survivor gift bag on her birthday, full of handy reference material like People magazine and the first season of Glee on DVD. One of the items enclosed was the Twilight movie.
I've been all over her to watch Twilight, but for whatever reason, it took her a while to get to it. That's possibly because most adults don't rearrange their schedules so they can watch a teenage vampire flick just to satisfy me.
Anyway, for no reason other than this making me laugh, here's the original text from our email exchange yesterday.
Tracey: Forgot to tell you at lunch that I watched Twilight finally the other night...and New Moon via NetFlix should be waiting for me at home to watch tonight...
Me: See? SEE? Good stuff.
Tracey: Edward's lips are too red...the bad make-up is distracting... I, of course, liked the boring cop Dad with the Magnum PI mustache. ;)
Me: You're possibly the first person in the world to be TEAM BELLA'S DAD. I may have to tweet this.
Tracey: He likes steak and cherry cobbler! Ain't nuthin' wrong with that!
I still giggle every time I read this.
What Tracey doesn't know is she's about to get schooled on the first season of Mad Men.
I suspect someone's about to change her alliance to TEAM DON DRAPER.
"I'll bring the brown liquor."
P.S. For the rest of you, Mad Men is getting the Eclipse treatment as soon as my Roger Sterling doll comes off backorder.
