Funny story
I recently set up Netflix for my mom and helped her select a bunch of movies to order. I promptly forgot which ones we had chosen.
Yesterday (which was several weeks later), I was asking her how she liked the movies. She told me that she really liked the most recent movie. I started trying to figure out which one it was. (A little context: 90% of my mom’s communication is via “yes” and “no,” due to her stroke, and she definitely can’t tell me the title of a movie she’s watched.)
One of my first questions was, “Does it have an animal?’ The answer was “yes.” After much back and forth, I confirmed that it was, in fact, some kind of mammal. Maybe if I could figure out exactly what it was, I could figure out the movie. Eventually we narrowed it down to being some sort of big cat that lives at the zoo. I named all the big cats I could: tiger, cougar, panther, leopard, lion, mountain lion, bobcat, and so on. “No” to all of them. Then I asked her if the cat could talk and she said “yes.” Well, I was pretty much stumped. I again went through all the big cats I could think of and got “no” to all of them. I ultimately decided that she probably didn’t really mean that the cat could actually talk to humans. I figured it was just some random movie in which a cat played a significant part.
Today I logged onto her Netflix account to find out what the movie was. Turns out the big cat was Aslan and the movie was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (I can only assume that my mom said “no” on “lion” because it’s not your typical, everyday lion.)
Awww. LOL.
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