date night

sorry i have been negligent on posting for a few days...ok, maybe more than a few.

life goes on.....school, lots of "hanging out" and a strange thing that my girlfriend likes to call date nights.

so my friend invited us out for dinner and a movie with her boyfriend. dan and i had not been to the movies since, uummm, hhhhmmmmm, i cant remember. im not just saying that to be funny. i honestly cant remember the last movie that we didnt watch on our laptops :)

dan was overcome by the nostalgia of being at the movies and gave in to his munchies. everyone else seemed to be at the concession stand - maybe they were giving something away. wrong. of course we didnt know what had happened over the last several decades since we had been to the movies. we decided to go with the #1 - 2 medium drinks and a medium popcorn. when the poor cashier pulled out these HUMUNGOUS cups i was aghast. i questioned her is THAT the medium size? she seemed a little surprised like i was shocked that i wasn't getting enough. oh, well, you can upgrade to the large for another $1.50. dan and i just started laughing because these 2 mediums were like 2 liters. i am not lying. one 2 liter a piece. i told her that i wanted to Downgrade to smalls but then she said those didnt come with the package. well then she hauled out the barrel of popcorn. she actually had to use 2 hands to put this thing up on the counter. it was frightening. we wouldn't eat all that popcorn in 6 weeks. i looked at dan and hoped he was hungry. if the sizes were not bad enough, this cute little cashier looked up at us and said, ok, that will be $17.50. dan and i turned and stared at eachother. not surprising i guess since we were getting like 10 pounds of popcorn and two 2 liters of soda.
i guess you can take the missionary out of the feild but you cant take the cheap out of the missionary. i was yelling at myself in my mind - what are you doing? are you really going to spend that much money on food that you wont even be able to finish? what if your cheap friend joy in brazil finds out about this? you've got to do something and now! so i kind of cocked my head and asked the girl how much it would be if we only bought one 2 liter. $12.50. that was better. and again in my mind i'm saying you mean to tell me that your charging $5 for a soda?? but the sense of relief at paying less and not feeling forced to finish that drink felt so sweet.
dan needed 2 arms to carry his popcorn and no, he didnt finish it all. i think he ate 1/4 of it which would be like 2 bags of microwave popcorn. the couple we were with were laughing along with us but they did seem a little grossed out that we would share a straw. how do i know this? because my friend said you're sharing your drink? aren't you gonna get 2 straws? my response - we're married. we dont need 2 straws.

but there is not anything special about seeing a movie at the theater. i had to keep my shoes on and i couldn't pause it to go to the bathroom. the one thing that i do miss about being in a theater is being around other people as they are watching movies. at this particular movie i got a chuckle when like 2 people applauded at the end. there have only been a few movies made in all time that deserved applause and this was not one of them.

dan and i had a very interesting movie watching experience in NYC. we were killing time in between our...oh, forget it, i need more time to tell this story....