#on cue

He waited expectantly.

"Why's it called Ming?" said the Archchancellor, on cue.

The Bursar tapped the pot. It went ming.

❦     -     Emerald colored hues shifted slowly looking up at the caped hero just slightly above her. The green woman of nature leaned into the leaf chair she had managed to grow in a matter of seconds. ❝ Listen, Supergirl. I don’t want to be here just as much as you don’t want me here. Look what the weather is doing to my hair!? I’m waiting for Harley. ❞

"My First Movie On VHS"

Dumb & Dumber (1994):

Travel Back to April 7th, 1996... Easter.

Early in the morning my siblings and I sprung up and rushed to the living room to bask at all the goodies the Easter Bunny had left us.

Hardboiled Eggs, Cadbury Eggs, Malted Milk Ball Eggs, Chocolate Marshmallow Eggs, and Crosses made of Chocolate because Jesus was not Crucified on an Egg.

Beyond the chocolates we typically got one solid/major gift from the Ol' Pastel Hare and lo and behold he left me... I can't remember... it was 1996.

But I do remember days previously my family took a road trip in to the city and stopped at the mall (Woot! Woot!) and I was left unattended with a $20 bill. Mindlessly Meandoring, my brother and I found ourselves inside an On Cue (probably one of the greatest stores of the 90s) and I came face to face with a Dumb & Dumber standee amongst a shelf of VHS tapes.

At the time I had never seen Dumb & Dumber but I was a big fan of The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - Mr. Carrey's material always got a lot of laughs at recess.

So, I did what any 8 year old would do - I grabbed the VHS to take to my Mom and ask her if I could have it, but before I could make it out of the store the theft alarms went off.

An On Cue clerk nabbed me and said some crap like "You gotta pay for that," and I retorted something like, "I gotta show my mom". The clerk then told me I need money to take the movie out of the store so I flashed him my $20 and he rung me up.

At 8 years old this was my biggest purchase of my life.

By the time I rejoined my family I totally forgot I invested my money in a movie because I was 8 and that's the kind of baller shit 8 year olds do.

Now hop back to Easter. I had been holding on to the VHS waiting for the most opportune time to spring it on my family for a full on showing.

I come from a family of squabblers but no matter what was going down a good old movie could unify the fam in the living room and what better time than Easter after Catholic Mass.

So, while my siblings were darting around the room looking for Easter candy I nonchalantly stashed Dumb & Dumber in my Easter Basket.

When my parents came into the room to simmer us kids down it was time for us to display our beautiful bounty of gifts from the Easter Bunny.

My older sister got Blah...

And my brother got Blah...

And my other sister got Blah...

It was 1996... what kid remembers what his siblings got for Easter? We are here for my ramblings of My First VHS...

Anywhosel, Then it was my turn to present- I swung that VHS above my head like I was Effing He-Man!

There I was, a Red Headed Cherub, yucking it up like the Easter Bunny left me a gift of joy... I can only imagine what my folks were really thinking at the moment, ya know, because they tell the Easter Bunny what we want for Easter.