I, am nah lef handed!

I wore a Star Wars shirt today on my errands, and two things happened for the first time.

First, a kid at Best Buy made me feel old. I know that some of my readers will be shocked that anyone under thirty can feel old, and I know that you might be mad at me for saying so, but feeling old and being old are not the same thing. I met an 83 year old man in Colorado once who still roped cattle and rode an ATV for more hours everyday than he spent in the bathroom. If you can still laugh at a whiny fart ringing out from the back seat of an otherwise silent car, then you are not old.
The reason I felt old was because that kid at Best Buy started complaining about how Lucas was making 3-D versions of all the Star Wars films and reissuing them in theaters. When I mentioned how awful it was for me to see the special editions of the original films in theaters when I was younger, and how that awfulness escalated exponentially with the release of the pre-trilogy-Jar-Jar-Binks-sess-pool episodes 1,2, and 3 he looked at me like I had poop on my nose. Episode 3 came out when he was 11! He thought it was freaking COOL! He thinks the special editions are--with the exception of the Muppet sing along in Jabbba's palace and the "Han didn't shoot first" fiasco in A New Hope--more enjoyable than the original!

Grey hair popped up all over my head as he told me these things, and when I got to the car I had a revelation; it being the second thing that happened to me for the first time today:

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS CRAP ANYMORE!

Not "this crap" like life, I'm not giving up the living. I mean I don't care about the thing underlying our conversation that has made me, and the rest of the geek community, grumpy for years now. Pretension. Most people won't think of me as pretentious for saying that Episodes 1, 2, and 3 sucked, but if I substitute in "Twilight" or "Avatar" or "M. Night after The Village" people might get ruffled. Sure I hate Twilight. Sure I loved Avatar and got grumpy at a friend of mine who called it "boring." Sure anyone who likes M. Night's Air bender is under the age of Ten and probably smells like an unchanged diaper, but that's fine by me. Creating something, writing in my case, is putting yourself out there. If you have even a single person who will argue with a fat bearded man in Best Buy about how your artistic contribution is worthwhile then you've made it. You've done something that the majority of people will never be able to match.
That's awesome!
Plus, everyone knows that The Princess Bride was the best thing with swords and princesses to come out of the Eighties and early Seventies, so there's no point in making a stink anymore.
Unless they remake my Bride with Robert Pattinson as Westley..."As you wish," my ass! That'd be a real reason to throw a fit.

The change they made to this part of the movie would be alright, though.
You killed my father...Lightsaber style!