The next decade....what's in store?

No Reservations

Went to see the movie 'No Reservations' tonight. The lead character - Kate - is a Chef whose life is thrown upside down when her sister dies and she has to look after the kid. Then, the following characteristics bear some similarity to me in that she is single and very much into her career. She has all these rules about things....she doesn't eat during the day, she doesn't eat dessert and she doesn't drink on the job.

When she has to take some time off to adjust to life with the kid, the restaurant owner hires a Sous Chef who is a bit cooky and fun and off the cuff and spontaneous. Eventually, though the efforts of the kid, they hook up, but not without her rules coming up in everything.

I'm a bit anal-retentitive about certain things. Time keeping is one of them, and saying you are going to do something and not doing it is another. For example if you are talking to someone about plans for later and he says "I will call you" and he doesn't, that is a problem for me.

Because of her anal-retentitiveness about how her kitchen is to be run, the Sous Chef walks out of her kitchen and her life. She eventually realizes that she was being anal-retentive and goes to beg for him back. She had closed herself off from relationships for 3 - 4 years so this was a bit new to her.

As I started out by saying....many similarities between Kate and me.

It reminds me about what the young Customs Officer said to me on Friday when I came back from Barbados. He was waiting on the CSME stamp and he says "so what happen to your husband?" I was taken aback because he usually does not strike up a conversation like that. It's usually something like "how are you today". So I tell him that I don't have any, nor do I want any because oonu man is pure stress. He agreed to some extent, but also said the woman could be stress too.

He then asks me if it's because I am not looking. Yes, I reply. Then he said something which took me by surprise. "You must keep an open mind". After we ended the conversation, I asked him where the toilet was. On my way back from using it, he called out to me and said "Remember, keep an open mind!" I promised to.

So I will have No Reservations next time someone asks for my number to get to know me better. Well maybe not on the first meeting. I still want to keep that bit of anal-retentiveness about me!

Posted by yamfoot at November 24, 2007 09:44 PM