People Don't Know What They Are Missing!

[~Ally~]

Hi guys and gals.
Not sure this is news worthy but i just wanted to share my little experience in work today that made me smile.
At the moment i am placed on a hospital ward which i really don't like..obviously the patients are nice but the staff are not so good.

Well today i had to go on break with this group of nurses who i really have nothing interesting to say to when suddenly one of them mentions about this film she seen but cant remember the name of.
From her description i recognised it straight off as The Shawsank Redemption and told them this was it. Another nurse says ooh thats one of her favourite films also but she can't remember how it ends (strange 'favourite' i know). Anyway so i proceed to tell them the ending, rehash the story and name characters when they ask who was whom. Then when i tell them it was written by Uncle Steve they had the audacity not to believe me , after all most people think he is simply a horror writer.

So to change the subject one of them mentions another favourite movie..and unbelieveably it was Stand By Me!! Once again i was met with dumbfounded stares when i mentioned this is another of Uncle Steves fabulous stories,ha.
It really does make me wonder how many people his stories reach through movies or tv series' without them even realising he is the creator...some people really don't know what they are missing, does anybody else encounter this also? In fact i find i am quite often informing family or friends that the movies they love are written by Uncle Steve without them realising.

Anyway, i know this story isn't important but it made me smile during a miserable day at work and made my break with these people a little more tolerable.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Makes me smile too, Ally, the way people refuse to believe he wrote them, thankee for sharing your story.

Like the little old lady that came up to him in the supermarket in Florida and asked why he doesn't write anything like The Shawshank Redemption and refused to believe Sai King himself about it.

And Shawshank, Green Mile and The Body (Stand By Me) don't seem to me to be uncharacteristic stories.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Stacey B]

Hi
I've had similar conversations on many many occasions and have actually introduced quite a lot of people to the works of SK.

[tracie]

my hubby is the same,he's all football and italian funny films which by the way i can't stand because i cannot understand way everything in italian comical films are all based on sex,nude women.i at times find it very vulgar,anyway when i told him that stand by me was by sk he couldn't believe it.it's so nice to see that in some things he watches he has taste.i think that sk has a gift of writing books for everyone,horror lovers and non

[tillyn]

I've actually had people at work do the same thing! When i tell them to watch a certain movie they'll say he didn't write that. Okay, so i'll bring them the movie and the book and tell them to read then watch. (and return my stuff thankee sai.)

[DarkWriter]

They may not admit it...But I will lay odds that at least one or two of those nurses are now re-thinking what they previously thought of Stephen King's works.

Who knows maybe they will even go out and buy one of his books.

Thank you for sharing.






If you have a man eating plant...you better be female.

[danie]

I think it would be cool if you found a copy of Different Seasons at a secondhand store and gave it to one of the nurses. Ask her to read "Shawshank" and see what she thinks. If she likes it, she may read the other short stories, and then you will have made another Stevie fan and maybe a friend...She might pass it around to the other nurses as well.

[rjt65]

Hey Ally funny always always this will happen -- i posted 3 weeks or so ago bout my haircut. 2 woman Hair cutters one other older guy in the shop. some new talk show on where i said the host looks familiar (a woman) hair cutter says oh she played the wife in that green mile movie..

I smile and say you like S King ..of course she says no the other chimes in eww to scary etc..... no to horror etc... than I bring up stand by me, shawshank and say the same guy wrote all 3---SK! yah exactly what u went thru.

Get used to it --it happens all the time! ;-)

thanks for sharing!

[JohnDalglish]

I think it would be cool if you found a copy of Different Seasons at a secondhand store and gave it to one of the nurses. Ask her to read "Shawshank" and see what she thinks. If she likes it, she may read the other short stories, and then you will have made another Stevie fan and maybe a friend...She might pass it around to the other nurses as well.

Hi,

Indeed, what a good idea, Danie!

And the rest of the stories are excellent as well, of course.

Long days and pleasant nights

[youngfibre]

Hapi you got to smile off a miserable day Ally. i had to bring the Green mile to prove the movie came from it. A whole lot of people are SK fans they just dont know it.