The Story of The Pink Stuffed Pig

I've been prepping today for our next shoot day. Which is on Thursday the 20th. One of the joys of being an indie director is that you also get to do 5 million other jobs that a well paid director would be able to delegate to other people. But alas there is a joy in doing it yourself. One you don't have to answer to anyone, and two it feels so much more rewarding on the shoot day because your blood sweat and tears have been put in so much of it. I digress. So one of the rooms we are filming in on Thursday needs to look girly so I went to the goodwill to see if they have any pink foofy stuff. I got a pink stuffed animal pig, two pink pillows, and two pink vases for 14$. When I was there looking for items I ran into someone I knew from my Blockbuster Video days. I tapped him to say hi. He was like, "Hey. How's it going? Dez right?" And I said, "Yeah....so how's your brother doing?" (I had forgotten his name so I tried to divert the attention away from that by asking about his brother.) And of course I looked like a bum when I ran into him. And at The Goodwill for that matter! lol. In a perfect world I would have been wearing a nice suit and surrounded by an entourage of people just making me look oh so cool. But instead I’m wearing these old holed up jeans. An old t shirt. Old converse. And I need a haircut and a shave. And I had this old dingy backpack. I was so embarrassed. And to top it off, I have a giant pink stuffed pig I’m holding.” He looked at it and said, “Do you have a daughter or something?” And I said, “Oh no! it’s for a scene we are doing. I'm doing indie films now and for one of the scenes we need a girly looking room so...” the more I tried to explain it the worse it sounded. Like when you tell a joke that no one gets so you try to explain the joke and that just makes the joke worse. It was embarrassing. lol. So hilarious. He probably thinks I’m a psycho killer that likes to collect pink pigs or something. lol. 😝