It's one of the most classic four minute scenes in a Hollywood movie.
Detective Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood walks into a coffee shop that is being held hostage by four armed robbers.
Harry reads the paper at the counter while Loretta pours a coffee into a large Styrofoam cup. In addition to the coffee, Loretta pours about a pound of sugar into the stationary cup. Harry presents his folded dollar bill onto the counter and without looking up walks out the door, takes three steps, takes one sip and spews the coffee out onto the sidewalk. Upon turning around he sees two suspects turning the "We're Open" sign around to say, "We're Closed". Harry continues down the sidewalk.
In the next 90 seconds or so three great quotes from the movie "Sudden Impact" emerge...
1. Harry walks back into the coffee shop while bedlam is taking place and is confronted by one of the armed robbers. The armed robber quizzically looks at him and says, "What are you doing here." In the classic "Dirty Harry" voice, Detective Callahan says, "For the last ten years, Loretta there has been giving me a large black coffee. Today she gives me a large black coffee, only it's got sugar in it... Lots of sugar... I just came back to complain."
2. Detective Callahan goes on to say to the four armed robbers, "We are not going to let you just walk out of here." The robber laughs as he says, "Who is we, sucker?" Callahan's response doesn't disappoint..."Smith... Wesson... and Me."
3. Five shots later three of the suspects are shot dead and one injured. The injured one grabs Loretta and hold a gun to her head with his left arm holding a headlock on the waitress. Callahan calmly and coolly raises his 44 Magnum (the largest handgun in the world) with his straightened right arm and with eyes squinted utters the famous phrase, "Go ahead... make my day!"
My iWitness...
I had the joy of "making someone's day" yesterday. (I didn't shoot anybody!!)
All of us have the power to make someone's day... every day.
You've probably noticed in our world these days it doesn't take much to "make someone's day."
That's the challenge of the day...
"Go ahead... Make someone's day!"
Send an email, write a text, pick up the phone, buy some flowers, offer a hug, compliment someone's traits that make them extra special, tell your children how proud you are of them, tell your parents "thank you!", let the ears of the ones you love hear those precious words escape from your heart through your lips, "I love you..."
I have a sneaking suspicion that when you "make someone's day..."
Your day will be made too...
And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!
"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." (Ephesians 4. 29)
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