Twisted Conundrum, Randy Quaid at Your Door

There's a knock on your door and upon answering it you find none other than Randy Quaid.

Yes, the same Randy who is in the news these days and sort of a fugitive from the American courts. Although he is supposedly across the border up in B.C. right now, he has secretly re-entered the USA.

Your first impression is that he's the same big, likable lug many of us have enjoyed for the past few decades in the movies. Your second impression is that he's in trouble-- looking frightened, tired, in need of help. He has a paper bag with a few personal effects, and is dressed in rumpled casual clothes.

Randy says he needs a place to hide out for a week, maybe two, away from the press, away from Evi, away from the law, away from the Hollywood Star Whackers. He needs somewhere to "sort things out." He claims he'll monetarily make it worth your while after he "gets back to L.A. and straightens things out."

In the meantime, as a deposit, he offers you 20 grand in small bills and says there's a lot more where that came from after he's finished in Los Angeles. Extending his hand filled with the cash, he offers the 20 g's to you on the spot.

So. What do you do with Randy? What do you do with the moola?

 

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I don't know what I would do with the money

  I'd send him to your place.   By the way, where do you live?

I got the money, hey

You know I got away I headed down south and I'm still running today

hmm

I'd tell him to keep his money. Over coffee and food some place other than my home I'd offer suggestions on how he could lower his profile. I'd remind him that he can be tracked through his cell phone, bank card use, etc.

If he offered money again after that conversation I'd surely accept.

 

Take the money

offer overnight food and shelter, screen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new version) and in the morning turn his crazy right wing butt over to the Federalies.

The Last Detail

   Is Quaid still living out the script? Only this time on the west coast?

I love that film

and reviewed it here on OlyBlog a couple years ago. I'm surprised anyone else has seen it!

He sure does seem to be reliving it. Here's what I said about Quaid's character in that film:

Quaid is a big, lumbering baby of a man by the name of Meadows. As Nicholson's character "Bad Ass" Buddusky summarizes his prisoner: "Let me tell you something about a kid like Meadows. He's the kinda guy, he's goin' to the brig, secretly he's probably glad. On the Outside too many things can happen to him-- all of it bad."

And for the record, I'd let him come in, accept the money, and take lots of notes for my upcoming book or article about the experience.

 

now that I think about it

I'd possibly not even answer the door. :)