Heres a funny (and true) story that just happened... We just got a brand new, state-of-the-art security system for our home. Olga is in Colombia all week, so its just me and our dog Charlie at the house this weekend. Around midnight, I fall asleep on the couch in the living room watching Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It gets to the part near the end of the movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger says Hasta la Vista, Baby, and he blows away the other frozen Terminator (the T-1000), shattering it into a thousand little pieces. Well, the new glass-break-frequency-sensors in the kitchen hear the Terminator shattering on the surround sound speaks (which sounds like glass shattering), and that sets off our brand-new house alarm... And its LOUD. Like, the LOUDEST thing Ive ever heard!! So Im woken up by the sound of this ear-shattering house alarm that Ive never heard before, and theres an automated voice now blaring throughout the house, GLASS BREAK IN THE KITCHEN DETECTED, YOU HAVE AN INTRUDER IN THE HOUSE!! GLASS BREAK IN THE KITCHEN DETECTED, YOU HAVE AN INTRUDER IN THE HOUSE!! At this point, Im thinking, Crap! Someone has broken into the house! Im running around half out of it (still half-asleep), Charlie is barking like crazy, the alarm can be heard on the moon, and suddenly a human beings voice comes over the speaker system, Mr. Diaz, we have received an alarm alert, is everything ok?! I say to the guy, Yes, everythings fine! But the movie is still playing, so youve got Edward Furlong (the kid in the movie) screaming Shoot it!! Shoot it!! Shoot it!! So then the security guy on the speakers says, Is someone SHOOTING at you, Mr. Diaz?! Over the dog barking and the blaring alarm, I yell back, No one is shooting at me!! Its Arnold Schwarzenegger!! He blew away the T-1000 and that set off the alarm!! Lucky for me, the security guy was a James Cameron fan and he saw Terminator 2 a bunch of times, so he knew the scene I was talking about. I eventually told him my safe word, so he shut off the alarm and cancelled the automatic call to the police. And I may have soiled myself. Damn you, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and your witty catchphrases.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:36:52 +0000
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