Sunday, January 4, 2009

True Hollywood Story - Batman Saves Quincy!!!



Quincy and his beloved half-brother, Ernie

Where do I begin on this one? I (Jon) took Avery and Quincy over to our friends parents' house. Quincy was going to play with his half brother Ernie the yellow lab and Avery was going to get to see the horses. Their house is in the most unique & cool part of Los Angeles. One minute you are in the middle of the hustle and bustle of LA and when you take a turn down this hidden road marked private it brings you into a rustic canyon community that looks and feels like a "Country Time" lemonade commercial crossed with a Norman Rockwell painting. There are horses, open streams, horse back riding trails, no sound of traffic & picturesque mountains in the background.

Their parents have lived there for a long time and over the years the neighbors have changed. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous have taken over their neighborhood. So as we were walking and Avery was petting $100k horses (seriously), our friend was telling me that Christian Bale, aka Batman from Batman Begins & Dark Knight just spent millions of $ on the property at the end of the street. He hadn't moved in yet and never visits it because he is going to rebuild the house, but he built this amazing swing set. Our plan was to sneak the kids onto this really cool swing set and let it get the use it deserved. When we approached the house we saw people sitting in the yard having a picnic in the yard. I was keeping my eye on Avery, when I looked again I saw a yellow lab run across the yard and boundlessly leap into Christian Bale's swimming pool. I said out loud "Oh look, they also have a yellow lab." I then saw the yellow lab try to get out of the pool, but he didn't know where the steps were. Just then, this man comes running over and grabs the yellow lab by the collar and lifts him out of the pool. My friend and I look at each other and say that's not their yellow lab, it's QUINCY!!!! We go running over there and who of all people was it that pulled Quincy from the pool... Batman. Quincy's pool-hopping plans for the afternoon were foiled by Batman! Needless to say, Christian Bale wasn't that happy about having his pool hopped by Quincy. We shared some small-talk words with him and he was pleasant, but you could tell a little annoyed. While walking back we were all sure he would have a massive fence and gate built by next week.... Only in LA.

2 comments:

lisa may terwilliger said...

i love it! what a great story! you should consider selling quincy on ebay as the dog christian bale saved! har har.

WEW said...

ha ha i love that quincy crashed bales' picnic. i have this image of quincy telling ernie, "batman; shmatman...i'm going in!" LOVE IT!
(this is whitney from alabama...i stalk your blog)