In the movie Yellow Submarine, the song “When I’m 64” gets a little countdown with animation ending in a silhouetted couple kissing. A friend lent me and the ex their VHS copy of Yellow Submarine during a *really* bad year - an apartment we thought would be OK turned out to be very not OK, and that movie really helped us both to keep our sanity together, we watched it a lot. So one of our things as a couple became, if “When I’m 64” was playing we’d kiss at the end. I mean a cartoon *said* to.
I was thinking about this because the place I was at had the song on the PA. It’s fairly sad for me, because even though we survived that crummy apartment as a couple, there was a lot more hell to come, stress really messed with the never-great odds of us lasting, and eventually we broke up. Anyway if you haven’t seen the movie it’s really charming, it’s one of my big favorites.
