One 3.6-mile city ride. This morning when I left it had just begun to snow, so I was happy to have a ride home.
As soon as I got in the house I grabbed the phone. "Who're you calling?" RDC asked idly.
"Kal."
"Didn't you just get out of her car?"
We called each other simultaneously to say "Jordan Catelano." We couldn't remember his name for the last half-mile, and that is just wrong. I was trying to make a parallel between Ricky and whatever the new chick's name was in the last episodes of "My So-Called Life" and the high school boy and his best friend in "Queer as Folk."
Not only as RDC never been a girl, he doesn't remember what it's like to live with one either. The same thing happened years ago when Haitch and I couldn't remember the third daughter's name on "The Cosby Show." Which I still couldn't and had to look up (Vanessa). It's okay that I forgot that, because I barely watched that show; it was very wrong of Kal and me to forget Jordan Catelano, because she was the exact right age to watch the show when it was on and although I wasn't and didn't I have certainly demonstrated my MCSL love.
Anyway, I had just come home from an Haitch outing and RDC said hi and then something about that Huxtable daughter Vanessa. You would have to know how much RDC doesn't talk about television and how gullible I am, in addition to merely appreciating coincidence, to know how those sentences coming out of his mouth bowled me over. But of course Haitch had called in the minutes between her arriving home and mine.
I don't know if she remembered it on her own or had looked it up. I looked up all of my references: Ricky of course, but I looked up Vasquez. He was one of the few characters not referred to by both names. Delia Fisher. Not knowing "Queer as Folk" names is okay. Justin and Daphne.
As parallels go, I prefer the calling despite having just left someone's side to the Ricky:Delia::Justin:Daphne one. But they both work.