This is the story of my brush with Colonel Irving Lambert, though first I do have to start with a reference to the new Batman film so you can understand the context of my story:
In the new Batman film, Batman has gone in hiding and the city has turned to crap basically and when he decides to come out of hiding, Alfred (the butler played by Michael Caine) urges him not to. He refuses to bury any more members of the Wayne family. Anyway he explains when he goes on holiday, he goes to a little cafe in Paris, it's his dream that Batman runs away and one day when he goes to that cafe, drinks his coffee and looks up to see Batman a few tables away, with a wife and maybe a child. They wouldn't say anything to each other, they'd just give each other a nod and that would be all that was needed, so show the mutual respect they have for each other and for all that they've done for each other over their years (Alfred adopted Bruce when his parents died).
Anyway I had a moment that reminded me of this. I went down south, after playing Splinter Cell a few days earlier (Double Agent, where Lambert gets shot) and we were at this service station with only a few cars in the car park; I got out to get some fresh air and leant up against the car bonnet. A Mitsubishi family car turned up and parked about three spaces away, out got three little black kids and an older brother. Out of the other side, a black girl and her supposed boyfriend got out and walked towards the service station, then I saw their dad watching them. The dad was the spitting image of Lambert, a plump black man with a bushy moustache, leaning against the car with his arms folded, wearing a woolen vest and tie and balding hair (although he grew more hair in Double Agent). We both looked at each other and nodded at each other to be polite but it was like that scene in Batman, like a mutual understanding - with a sense of finality between colleagues and friends. The only thing that would've made it any better would be if he'd said "Thank you Sam."
In the new Batman film, Batman has gone in hiding and the city has turned to crap basically and when he decides to come out of hiding, Alfred (the butler played by Michael Caine) urges him not to. He refuses to bury any more members of the Wayne family. Anyway he explains when he goes on holiday, he goes to a little cafe in Paris, it's his dream that Batman runs away and one day when he goes to that cafe, drinks his coffee and looks up to see Batman a few tables away, with a wife and maybe a child. They wouldn't say anything to each other, they'd just give each other a nod and that would be all that was needed, so show the mutual respect they have for each other and for all that they've done for each other over their years (Alfred adopted Bruce when his parents died).
Anyway I had a moment that reminded me of this. I went down south, after playing Splinter Cell a few days earlier (Double Agent, where Lambert gets shot) and we were at this service station with only a few cars in the car park; I got out to get some fresh air and leant up against the car bonnet. A Mitsubishi family car turned up and parked about three spaces away, out got three little black kids and an older brother. Out of the other side, a black girl and her supposed boyfriend got out and walked towards the service station, then I saw their dad watching them. The dad was the spitting image of Lambert, a plump black man with a bushy moustache, leaning against the car with his arms folded, wearing a woolen vest and tie and balding hair (although he grew more hair in Double Agent). We both looked at each other and nodded at each other to be polite but it was like that scene in Batman, like a mutual understanding - with a sense of finality between colleagues and friends. The only thing that would've made it any better would be if he'd said "Thank you Sam."
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I know, sort of weird stretch but I have a weird sense of humor.
No, just a lack of them with that kind of drawl.![[face_cowboy]](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ignboards.com/styles/ign/ign/smilies/classic/cowboy.gif "Cowboy [face_cowboy]")