Background - My husband told me that he was watching the movie “Point Break” with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves when he took noticed of the lab equipment they were using to study evidence from the bank robberies. He looked closely at the machines they were supposedly using and wondered if it was all just fake, junky movie props. It just looked too “high tech” to be real and he decided it was just that, junky movie props. It was a random, insignificant passing moment that he didn’t think much about; he was only catching quick clips of the movie anyway because of running back and forth from the office to the kid’s rooms in order to get them to sleep.
S.C.O.U.T. – With the kids firmly asleep, he made his final trip into the office and plopped down in his comfy recliner to find the movie credits zipping up the screen in the usual “none of this information matters, but we’re required to include it” speed. He accepted that he had missed most of the movie and then casually focused on the words zipping by while waiting for the next movie to begin. He caught one credit and one credit only in the blur of words zipping up the screen…. “Lab equipment made by Hewlett Packard”. It was strange to him because he wasn’t really reading the credits and yet his eyes had settled on the only one that seemed to chime in on his thought from only moments ago. He chuckled to himself as he shook off the “question asked, question answered” tingle that was creeping down his spine and conceded that the lab equipment had, in fact, been real. Hewlett Packard doesn’t make junky movie props!
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