Chocolate Reminisces

Jennifer and I enjoy Dove chocolate miniatures. We originally began with milk chocolate, but soon discovered the dark chocolate. Dove chocolate is very smooth and creamy; very melts in your mouthish. Anyway, each Dove chocolate miniature includes a PROMISES Message inside the foil wrapper for your edification. Think fortune cookie but unspeakably better. Half the fun of consuming Dove chocolate miniatures is finding out what your message says. I bet you didn't know that I look good in red did you?

On one occasion, in a less than chic hotel suite on a cold night in Centennial, Colorado Jennifer found an unusually but pleasantly amusing PROMISES Message. I enjoyed great laughs at her expense; I believe the appropriate word is "guffaw." Unfortunately, we thoughtlessly discarded the foil wrapper and I could not recall the exact phraseology for others to delight in as well. Now, much to Jennifer's chagrin, the elusive PROMISES Message has revealed itself again. This time I was hasty to stash it in my briefcase rather than the rubbish bin so that I could propagate the humor of that moment for others to enjoy; namely Captain Awesome. The PROMISES Message read as follows:

Watch reruns,
they replay
your memories.

I'm sure the Brashares are thinking, "I don't really see why that's funny." Let me ask you this; have you ever had a conversation with yourself about pop culture items from your childhood? Say, television shows, movies, etc.? I will reenact it for you in case you haven't engaged in this activity in a while.

Self-1: Quote from popular late 80's, early 90's movie that does not involve singing animated characters
Self-2: ~Puzzled Look~
Self-1: Have you not seen insert movie title here?
Self-2: No, what is that.
Self-1: You really haven't seen movie title?
Self-2: No.
Self-1: Oh c'mon, everyone has seen movie title.
Self-2: We didn't watch a lot of stuff like that when I was a kid.
Self-1: Yeah, no kidding. You haven't seen movie title. What about insert list of other popular movies from that era, interjected with nos from Self-2.

Self-1: What have you seen?
Self-2: Peter Potty Pan

I would be willing to bet that Captain Awesome has had similar conversations and mareveled at their mere existence. As Jennifer read that PROMISES Message, I snickered and stated her memory was blank. What then ensued would surely and quickly have escalated to long periods of the asphyxiating silent laugh were I a Brashares, but I am not, and that is precisely why I found it to be so amusing.