Most Wednesdays I leave the house very early to hit my favorite donut place. When I left yesterday, YA said she was going to the gym before work and would probably be gone before I got back.
I was thinking about that when I pulled into my driveway and saw that she was starting to back out of the garage. She didn’t notice me right away (I was on the hill part of the driveway so my lights were pointing higher than her car) so she didn’t wait for me to pull into the garage next to her so I just sat and waited.
What you need to know is that YA and I have different strategies for dealing with our long driveway. I almost always just back all the way down to the street. YA does several little turns at the top of our driveway so that she is driving out headfirst. Both techniques have their pluses and minuses. But it meant that by the time she had turned herself around at the top, there would be room for me to get by and into the garage.
Went exactly as I had expected but while I was waiting it did make me think about “playing chicken”. I’m not a big playing chicken kind of gal but it does feature in a movie I’ve watched too many times:
Have you ever been in a submarine? Do you have a favorite submarine movie?
Trail Baboon 
I was in U-505.
Das Boot is the best submarine movie ever made.
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I’ve been inside a U-boat at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. What a great museum.
Das Boot is the only U-boat movie that comes to mind at the moment, and I recall it as being pretty intense.
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I think that is the one I saw in Chicago, too. I remember it feeling so small!
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JacAnon
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That’s U-505.
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A few years ago when I had lots of time to watch movies during one of my medical vacations, I watched Das Boot, Run Silent Run Deep, and Operation Petticoat. Das Boot is definitely the best. I had to pause every so often because I’d find myself holding my breath. And it was surprising how many underwater shots were reused in the other two movies.
I remember going in the university of Chicago submarine.
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The other two movies were made more than two decades before Das Boot. They might have borrowed from each other though.
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I think the only submarine movie I’ve seen is Yellow Submarine. That doesn’t make it my favorite.
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I probably saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a child. Not my favorite either.
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I was actually in one of those Atlantis submarines once in Hawaii. It doesn’t go down very far … only about 120 feet but I really didn’t like it. Every time they announced how far underneath the surface we were, I got a little upset in my stomach. I think my favorite submarine movie is probably Operation Petticoat. Partly because it doesn’t take itself very seriously and then there’s the Cary Grant factor.
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Swoon- Cary Grant! 🙂
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Archie Leach
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No submarines for me. No submarine movies either, unless you count Yellow Submarine.
I used to scuba dive. It was exhilarating to dive deeply under water, under my own power. I was a good swimmer. The exercise and oxygen always made me sleep very deeply at night. That’s all I’ve got!
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Down Periscope, 1996
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I think it’s interesting that the first US deep dive research submersible, The Alvin, was built here at General Mills.
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In Brookings. Exhausted but reiieved.
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I think I saw Yellow Submarine when it was in the local theater. I thought it was somewahat enertaining… but I was younger then.
It seems to me there was a snack product that was called something like Screaming Meanies that was based on the movie. I could be wrong…
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Happy Valentine’s Day to those who celebrate!
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VS, I want to pay my baboon dues. Unfortunately, your Christmas letter doesn’t include a postal address. The $$ are now in a stamped envelope, but all is stalled on the desk.
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