OK - a funny one from when I was about 4yrs old: my mom's oldest sister & her family lived in Cartagena, Colombia when I was growing up. My family traveled to see them one summer & the trip involved driving to Miami then flying the remainder of the way. From southeastern NC where we live, Miami's about a 12hr drive.... a verrrrrry long time for a kid to sit in a car. All the way there, the adults (my parents, my mom's other sister & her husband) kept talking about Miami this, Miami that, etc., etc. My mom says after several hours of driving, I finally got her attention & asked, "Mommy, when are we going to get to your Ammi?"
And, an embarrassing adult one: Kelly & I had recently taken a vacation that involved air travel & we'd had some general fuckery trying to get back home (canclled flight, a change of carriers, lost luggage, arrival at an airport other than where we'd left our car, etc. etc.). A day or so after we got back home, my BFF called me to chat...I casually asked what she & her hubby were doing & she answered they had just sat down to watch a movie. Naturally, I asked which one & she told me "A Perfect Storm". Well that had been one of the in-flight movies shown during our previous week's flying. I thought that since it had been an airline's in-flight movie that it was an older release & that MOST people would have already seen, or at the very least, known the outcome of the movie. I didn't even hesitate to tell her, "Why would you watch that?! It's so depressing... everybody dies!" There was this awful silence at the other end before she said, "What?!?!?", then very dejectedly tell her husband, "Never mind - Lisa just told me how it ends." That's when I realized she had
no idea about the ending.
That's been about 7yrs ago now but she makes sure to remind me about it whenever she can. I'm sure I'll be hearing, "They all die!" for a long, long time.