Saturday, 30 November 2013

"You Went Down To The Cellar to See If Johnny Was Still There."

Two nights ago, I was absolutely shocked at what the Doctor said to me. We had been discussing how my room doesn't suit me (we moved house a few months ago), and I said that if we changed the color of the doors it would look nice, but it still wouldn't be "me". Then I said, "And even after my work, it still just..."
"It looks like a cheap B&B room," he said. I was so shocked, I didn't know what to say. I know the Doctor can be rude sometimes, but my father just told me that my weeks of work to make my room look nice made it look like a cheap B&B room! After a few seconds, still stunned, I disbelievingly answered, "What?"
"They all do," he said calmly. "Every room in this house." At first, this meant to me that he thought all my work had made no difference, and my room still looks as strange as all the others, so I asked, "Even after all my work?"
"What? Oh, no, no!" he said, I had made a mistake. "We're talking about before you worked on it!" Then, I realized that he hadn't been listening when I said "after all my work", and I took a minute to convince him that I had actually said it. Then he realized why I had been so shocked, and we started laughing.
When he doesn't hear me talking like that, it makes me think of "Planet of the Spiders", when Sarah's telling the Doctor an important story, involving her and Mike Yates going down to a cellar, to see what someone was doing, and meeting a man called Tommy on the way. Then she realizes the Doctors not listening, and the Doctor says, "Of course I'm listening! You went down to the cellar to see if Tommy was still there." My Doctor does this kind of thing a lot, so "You went down to the cellar to see if Tommy was still there" has become a joke with us. (Afterwards in "Planet of the Spiders", Sarah mentions a spider, and the Doctor becomes interested and tells her to explain again. This is something that often happens when I talk to the Doctor as well.) But once, he repeated what he thought I had said (which was very confused), and when I laughed, he smiled and said, "Oh, "Went down to the cellar to see if Johnny was still there", hmm?" I roared with laughter at him saying "Johnny"! It was like him proving the point - he obviously hadn't even been listening when we watched the show!

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