Two Brief Seattle Anecdotes

Hey everyone! As I write this, I'm in Seattle. We're at the apartment of some friend of my sister's who is out of town. While she's out of town, my sister gets to use her car and her internet connection. My sister is watching "Sydney White" and impatiently waiting for me to wrap this up, so I have to make this a pretty quick entry this week. I'm going to share a HILARIOUS anecdote.

Last night, me and sis went to a restaurant called Charlie's for some late-night grub. I got a cajun burger, which was delicious! The salad was pretty awesome too, it had cabbage and celery and all kinds of stuff in it. I had just seen "Monsters Vs. Aliens" at the iMax in 3D. The movie kind of sucked, but the viewing experience was awesome.
Anyway, towards the end of the meal my sister said something annoying and I happened to have my iPhone out, so I activated the lightsaber app and whacked her with it a few times. Everyone in the place froze and looked over at us. For a second I felt embarassed, then I heard the snap-hiss of another lightsaber igniting. It was the guy at the table next to me! He had one too!
We waved our sabers around a little bit and jokingly fought a little bit, then we heard a third lightsaber! A guy on the the other side of the restaurant had gotten his out and was waving it at us! We saluted him with our iPhone lightsabers and we all had a good laugh. I've never felt more accepted in my entire life!
My sister groaned in disgust.

As I was typing that, my sister reminded me of another anecdote that I should tell you about. We were at Wal-Mart today buying her friend a TV with our Alaska discount. If you're from Alaska, you just flash your ID when you buy stuff in Washington and you don't have to pay sales tax. It's a pretty sweet deal if you're buying a $500 TV. Anyway, while homeboy was picking out a TV I wondered over to check out some Twilight merch. I'm only a few hours from Forks, and I was thinking of going and taking the Twilight tour. I decided not to.
Anyway, I picked up a box of Twilight "Forbidden Fruit" Sweethearts. You know, like at Valentine's day, those hearts with little sayings on them? I found some Twilight ones. They say stuff like "I heart EC" and "Live 4-Ever" and "Sparkle" and "Forks" and "Lamb". They're pretty awesome. Also, on the box it says "Forbidden Fruit is the sweetest."
So later, Sis and Homeboy were dropping me off in Capitol Hill where I was going to have coffee with this really talented actress I know from college. If any of you saw my movie "SNAP!", it's the redhead from that. Anyway, Capitol Hill is this really hip, upscale, trendy part of Seattle. They were dropping me off and all these really trendy, very hip, very cool Seattle people were milling around outside the coffee shop. Then, after I was almost to the door, my sister leans out of the car and shouts as loud as she can "Hey Paul! You forgot your Twlight Forbidden Fruit Sweethearts!" and waves the box around. The box had this big picture of Edward Cullen and everything. I tried to play it off legit, but it was a little embarassing. All these super-cool trendy people were chuckling to themselves and shaking their heads. Chalk up a point for Sis.
Anyway, I gotta wrap this thing up. That's all for this week! Tune in next week for a virtual drive from Anchorage to Los Angeles!