The Victory Sandwich

When it comes to filmmaking, I always say that anybody can do it. But I also say that it takes a certain kind of crazy to keep doing it. As we get progress and hone our craft. I found that we started having superstitions and certain little quirks about how we worked. The Victory sandwich for example, stemmed from the first night we worked on this film called Doorbell Ditch. (a piece of crap) We finished shooting around 1am and we all went out to Walmart and shared a giant sub sandwich. This sparked the tradition of the Victory sandwich. We were all so exhausted and for some reason, that was the best sandwich we had ever eaten. So now every time we have a really good shoot, we celebrate with a Victory Sandwich.

(we have lots of superstitions I have yet write about)

Facebook pwns everyone at times.

I was shocked. For in that moment in my life I became a statistic. I had the unfortunate pleasure of finding out that I was no longer in a relationship through the popular internet networking site called Facebook. My relationship status no longer said that I was in in a relationship with Whatsherface. I always wondered what facebook did when status' changed. She had changed her status back to "single". The thing about facebook is that all our mutual friends saw her status update. That saved me the trouble of telling everyone I got dumped.

But wait, didn't I just talk to her a few days before? Didn't we reestablish our connection? Weren't we going to work on our communication? Apparently not. I had to talk to her. But I knew that was gonna be tricky. I thought to myself, enough with the runaround, I'm just gonna hit her up directly. I called her... the usual voicemail.... I figured I'd have more luck with a text. Courage need not be present when texting your now apparent ex boyfriend.

this is how our text conversation went via text:

JAIME: Hey, I'm a little confused about what we talked about the other day. Can you call me?

(no answer)

JAIME: So I take it that we're not doing this relationship thing?

WHATSHERFACE: WASNT THAT WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER NIGHT?

JAIME: I think I misunderstood. Sorry... Call me up real quick.

WHATESHERFACE: I DONT SEE HOW YOU COULD HAVE MISINTERPRETED THAT.

JAIME: Can you just call me one more time? It won't take you that long.

(so she calls me up, this conversation lasted exactly 48 seconds)

WHATSHERFACE

whats up?

Jaime

Hey, sorry, I'm a little confused about what we talked about the other night.

WHATSHERFACE

I thought we cleared everything up

JAIME

Could you at least tell me what is going on then, explain it to me like I'm stupid or somthing.

WHATSHERFACE

Jaime, we're not in a relationship anymore.

Jaime sits in silence for a moment, his chest opens up and his heart falls out of his chest. It hits the floor with a loud THUD.

JAIME

Oh... ok.

WHATSHERFACE

Ok. well i have to go, i'll talk to you later, ok? bye.

Jaime holds the phone up to his ear long after the conversatin ended.

FADE OUT:

(at least "we're not in a relationship anymore" is better than "I don't love you anymore")