I have a friend that I met in November when he got a job at my company. He had recently moved up here from Florida (he is a little confused) Two days or so into the new job he already didn't like it and was contemplating quiting. One day he told me when I ended up switching stores he didn't know how he would make it. Well the day came and I switched store and a few days later he didn't come-back from lunch, he was done. As he was looking for a new job he said he would probably have to move back to Florida to get his old job back because of the job market in this area.

Then I talked to him later in the day and he said he was going to end up staying...Tonight I talked to him again and it looks official this time, he is moving back to Florida, to witch I say...Can I come to? J/K but I do say this, Goodbye my good friend, goodbye smiller, we could have had a lot of fun making fun of you and your wife for having the same name or for going to wal-mart on your lunch every day to buy juice, or for always going in the back by yourself (i don't think we ever found out what you were really doing back there did we?). It was real, it was fun, but it wasn't long enough. Good bye smiller, good bye.

This scene is from the amazingly famous and heralded movie Zero Effect...which most of you have never heard of.

This scene takes place in an airport in Portland, and in my opinion is one of the funnier scenes you will ever see. Agent Zero is played by Bill Pullman and Steve Arlo is played by Ben Stiller.

Agent Zero (disguised) passes his sidekick Steve Arlo on an escalator and wispers...
Agent Zero: "Wait at the end" (As Steve is waiting at the end of the escalator a phone in a row of phonebooth's nearby begins ringing in the background, he picks it up)
Steve Arlo: "Hello, Steve Arlo.....I really hope your being followed"
Agent Zero: (In a phone booth somewhere) "You can't be to careful.....Because we need to talk now.....First of all......How was your trip"
Steve Arlo: "Fine"
Agent Zero: "Good...Alright, I just left Stark at the gym, some major revelations, the guy is a mess, somebody is holding something really serious over his head, and I don't think it has anything to do with money. First of all he doesn't move like a white collared criminal, you should see the way he walks, his shoulders ride at ear level, also he cut himself shaving three times in the last ten days or so, these are symptoms of a deeply ingrained paranoid fear (takes his glasses off)...a fear of being found out. (Camera goes back to when they were at the gym together) I get on a treadmill next to his and I get it mine going his exact same pace, I eventually ask him what level is he running at, I guess 8 and he said level 7, I am running at the same speed he is...Level 5. He'd sooner lie to a complete stranger than admit running 3 levels below my guess, as soon as I talk to him he runs the other way it's conditioning though, a reflex, he obviously didn't think to connect me to the blackmail business at all, if he would have expected me, he would have remembered my name, which...he didn't. Also, like most Ivy League graduates he drops his alma mater...with almost no prompting whatsoever, I say Celtics he says Cambridge. Oh, yea, the gentleman prefers redheads, he lusts after his red-haired masseuse, you can tell by the way he takes his massage, its more of a fantasized...everyday at the same time with the same woman. Oh, I found an old email message from Clearburg, Kinda cryptic, the note said 'Thorough check finds no boxer with the name K.V.' K.V. are obviously initials so we have to figure out what they stand for...lets see, what else? Ehhh, thats the important stuff."
Steve Arlo: "Daryl"
Agent Zero: "Shh, Sergio, Sergio Night"
Steve Arlo: "Right, whatever, can I ask you a question?"
(Camera pans back to see both men sitting in the same row of phone booths)
Agent Zero: "What's that"
Steve Arlo: "Why are we talking on the phone?"
Agent Zero: "I told you...you can't be to careful" (he puts his glasses back on) "Two guys...in an airport...talking...its a little fishy."
Steve Arlo: "Why are we even in an airport, why don't we just leave?"
Agent Zero: "Ok, I see the confusion, see...I need more research, I need you to go back to L.A. to get in the computer and get some things, and while you are there I need you to break into Clearburg's computer and pull anything pertinent, I have written out elaborate directions , they are in an envelope in the phonebook...in front of you...turn to rentals and I will meet you at the hotel tonight when you get back."
Steve Arlo: "Wait a minute, are you telling me that instead of calling me you had me fly up here (to Portland from L.A.) so you could tell me to go straight back to the computer (in L.A.) and fly back again (to Portland) tonight?"
Agent Zero: "It wasn't an emergency, there was no reason to risk the long distance lines...they listen you know?"
(Steve Arlo very frustrated)
Agent Zero: (in a very weird voice says) "Steve, are you still there?", "Hey, Steve?"
Steve Arlo: "No." (Hangs up the phone and walks away)

Anyway this scene is great and I am about ready to watch this movie for the third time and I have only known about it's existence since Andrew was born, so...that proves that I really like it. And I would encourage everyone else to watch it. You can only find it at a couple of movie places so you may want to call ahead and see if it's available. I know the Hollywood video has it on Michigan and Ireland, but it's out until Tue Midnight :) so you may want to check for it elsewhere.

I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I have (I had to watch the scene almost 3 times to write this...:) )