perhaps my favorite thing to happen to me at work was when i was taking the order of this tall 30-something country dude in a camo hat and jacket and he asked what extra toppings he should get on his pizza and i immediately said “whatever you want, follow your dreams” and in the following moments where i’m thinking shit why am i talking to this large southern man like a fellow college student he just looks forward at our selection of extra cheeses and repeats to himself “…follow my dreams”
I just looked this up and it turned out it was about a production of “cat on a hot tin roof”, a play which famously features a closeted gay lead character. a member of the audience was catcalling female actresses and shouting homophobic abuse when actor john lacy, who played the character big daddy, paused his performance and called him out. the heckler replied “what are you going to do about it?” to which lacy responded by leaping down into the audience and knocking him to the ground.
