THE DARK PASSENGER

Yesterday, i drove to the local Imax to see THE DARK KNIGHT.....my companion for this outing grew perturbed, began weeping, and bolted from her seat, leaving the theater.......Since we had driven in her vehicle, I was stranded....many miles from home.......an hour and half later, she appeared, looking very excitable and disturbed and was quick to demonstrate her anger and resentment, directing much of this toward me......on our half hour trek home, she refused to speak and shouted at me when i attempted to initiate conversation or ask how she felt.......
The Nolan film jarred me too! But her condition was so extreme! This morning she spoke, "telling" me how dreadful the film was and that no one should see it! Mama Mia! is more her fare........Of course, I viewed her as an hysteric with deeply repressed anger, which is a correct observation, since I have known her for 40 years........When she called me this morning to disparage the Batman film, I mentioned this episode from DEXTER............whereupon, she slammed the telephone down, thus perpetuating her simple, but effective denial mechanism......
Years ago a group of friends was at a local beerhall where many were smoking.....this same friend grew so upset that people were smoking that she ripped the tablecloth, with our drinks, snacks, AND ashtrays, from the table.....everything crashing to the floor.....and stormed off into the night.........another time, a group of friends went to the local Cinerama to see 2001; after the film, she insisted that we go home a particular way.....when we outvoted her in regard to our itinarary, she bolted in a horrific fit and disappeared.......to do it her way........there are hundreds of other examples of her doing this sort of thing.........you'd think she'd remove her blinders and see what's happening.......alas, that is not the case!