I had a strange dream this morning that my boyfriend got to meet my grandfather and my step-grandmother and one of their friends and we were all (including my mother, father, and brother) at my grandfather's nursing home - which first of all was weird because my step-grandmother has been pretty much non-existent since my grandfather was put in the nursing home due to his declining health and dementia. So in this dream on the way back home my step grandmother asks me if I was hunting the white whale and I swear I don't know if I've ever gotten more angry in a dream before (my boyfriend is a bit overweight, so I was upset because I knew she was referring to him). I was about to absolutely throw down and go on about how 'at least he's trying to lose some weight' and 'he actually is predisposed to weight problems' and 'so what if he's overweight at least he's physically pretty healthy' and all this other shit and my boyfriend just kinda
puts his hand on my leg, shakes his head at me, then laughs and says
"Well if that's the case, call me Ishmael!"
And we all just kinda start dying of laughter except for my step-grandmother who's upset because she meant for that joke to hurt him.
Then when we get home I ask him why he played into her mean joke like that and he says "Have you read Moby Dick? That whale is a fuckin badass. I'm pretty honored to be compared to him."
