The Force Was With Us

My friend Adam is a trip.  After spending more than two hours outside in subzero temperature last night, he was not taking "NO" for an answer, boldly walking up to Carrie Fisher, telling her it was his birthday (it wasn't) and asking for a photo despite employees at The Strand telling us she wasn't posing with fans for free when she charges $90.00 for a photo at Comic-Con and Star Wars nerds pay it while signing copies of her latest memoir about drugs and her affair with Harrison Ford on the Star Wars set, and damned if she didn't lean over and take a photo with him.  So I told her it wasn't my birthday but I would love a photo too, and she replied that "Well, it's your birthday sometime, so why not?"  But if you know me, you know it's never as simple as that, because Adam didn't like his photo and marched right back and requested that we both get a do-over!  And he was right, because this photo is much better than the first one.