Just enough to get you thinking… (by reacherfan)
As Uncle M knows, I’m VERY perceptive about the world around me; I tend to notice a lot. As many of you out there also know, I’m a huge fan of the reaching scene - the scene where the woman, otherwise helpless, struggles to reach something (especially her cell phone), but it lays mere inches beyond her fingertips grasp. She strains, struggles, tries oh so hard, but the cell phone barely escapes her; what was at once so accessible, now betrays her. When these two things come together, it gets me thinking…
For example, this past weekend, I was at a friend’s house, sitting out by the pool for some of the last few hours of sunshine. There was a group of us, talking, laughing, and soaking up the sun. Well, one of my friends (who I will call S) was lying on a lounge, when she was alerted by the ringing of her Blackberry. We had all placed our cell phones on the ledge of the deck, a couple of feet behind us. Now S, for whatever reason, really wanted that Blackberry, but didn’t want to get up for it. So, she flipped onto her belly, and tried to stretch out to reach it. Now, she has long arms (she’s tall, almost model-like in her height), but the Blackberry still escaped her grasp. She tried really hard, her fingers spread out wide, and she whimpered a little bit (even saying “I wish my arms were little longer”), but alas, she couldn’t reach the Blackberry. It probably was a good six inches away, and there was no way she would make up the gap in her position. I admit, I was staring a bit, but played it off by joining in the good natured joking around after the incident (”Hehe, you’re so lazy, can’t even get up to get your Blackberry!”)
This little incident really got me thinking; it got me imagining a heroine tied up on the floor of her house. Maybe she tried some self-bondage, that didn’t work out so well; or maybe her husband/significant other tied her up, but she drove him away with an ill-thought comment. Either way, she glances around the room, and her eyes fall on her precious Blackberry. She rolls over and strains out her fingers…but alas, the Blackberry sits mere centimeters beyond her fingertips grasp…oh so close, but the distance is too great. She gazes longingly at her Blackberry, but alas, no luck.
Or, she ties herself to her bed, thinking that her cell phone is well within reach to call a friend. But, she realizes that she misjudged the distance, and the cell phone sits just far enough away to be a possible, but unlikely dream. She thinks of all her good times using the cell phone, and lets out a little sigh when she realizes that she will have to wait for her boyfriend to return, that calling him is out of the question.
