Regular Cone

There's an ice cream parlor in upstate New York. Local legend has it that Rick Moranis once stopped in for a double scoop of chocolate mint (regular cone).

This doesn't seem too weird, almost not worthy of mentioning. Except, I too have been in this particular ice cream parlor, and I have seen the autographed 8x10 glossy headshot of Rick hanging on the wall. It reads "Honey, I love this ice cream! Best, Rick Moranis." I too, have read the 4 paragraph plaque that hangs next to the picture commemorating that days events.

As I ordered up a strawberry (regular cone), I remember thinking that it was pretty pathetic how this place was so proud of the fact that Rick Moranis had once happened to stop in. I was even laughing to myself. Then I noticed how genuine the older woman was who had scooped my cone and how her eyes lit up when she mentioned Moranis. I started to feel like an ass. I had been to hundreds of ice cream parlors in my life and none of them had put up a plaque summarizing my visit. Who was I to belittle Rick Moranis? And more so who was I to look down on his hundreds of fans?

I remember leaving that parlor trying to figure out what had made me think I was better than Rick Moranis. I thought about it for most of that afternoon. The only thing that I could think of was that he has been in at least 3 "Honey, I shrunk the kids!" movies, and I none. But when you factor in that he is Canadian that kind of cancels those out. Then I remembered he was in "Little Giants" too, and it all made sense. But then I remembered Strange Brew and SCTV and once again I was inferior.

After days of beating myself up about this, and sleeping in my car on the side of the road in upstate New York I realize this whole comparison was ridiculous. It was that day, that I decided that I wanted to meet Rick Moranis and tell him this whole silly little story. We would enjoy a couple of ice creams (regular cone) and watch "Brewster's Millions" and have a good laugh.

That never happened.