Last night at Open House, Quinn was showing me around her classroom and pointed to some writing projects on the walls and said "For some reason my teacher always hangs my work in the corner..." Her teacher overheard this and looked embarrassed, so (being true to my usual strangeness) I immediately said "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
The teacher looked at me, confused, so I said "that was from Dirty Dancing..." she looked even more confused then, so I added "...the movie..." at which point she began to look disgusted. Then it dawned on me that she wasn't familiar with the movie. Oh c'mon, at her age she should have seen this movie at least 20 times, lip syncing along with Johnny and Baby and the rest of us: "Baaaybaaay oooooh oooooh baaaaybaaay, my sweet baaaaaybaaaay, you're the one..."
Determined, I said "Dirty Dancing is the very popular movie from the eighties that starred Patrick Swayze." Finally, she said "Oh yeah, I know the movie." She didn't. There was an awkward silence.
So of course, in a loud sigh I said "Nobody puts Baby in a corner...", which I think scared the teacher, but made Quinn giggle. I love Quinn.
My job here is done.
Separated at birth! I love this and can picture it perfectly. Made me laugh- thank you!
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