I Love The Movies!
It all started with ‘Friday night dates’.
About 44 years ago I started dating Terry and our favourite dates were going to dinner and a show on a Friday night.
Although we did this every week it never became boring. In fact, we always always looked forward to it.
We met on stage so our love of acting was always strong and it didn’t matter how big a dinner I ate I was for SURE going to order popcorn with butter. Yum.
Amen!
After an inexpensive meal (probably McDonald’s when we were young) we would drive to the theatre, pay for our tickets, popcorn and drinks, and settle in for our evening adventure.
The lights go down and we are soon transported to ……our very first Star Wars movie, or The Shawshank Redemption, Fried Green Tomatoes, You’ve Got Mail, Back To The Future, Good Will Hunting, and sooooooo many more films over the years.
When we got married we had a babysitter always on call for Friday night. The children were excited to have a babysitter and we never stopped dating!
I’ll never forget the time we took the children to an all night Drive-In Theatre experience. They were able to watch one, then the children would fall asleep ( they had their ‘jammies’ and blankets, pillows, etc.) , and we just kept watching movie after movie. A special treat and I miss the drive ins of old.
Eventually we no way could stay awake for a 10:30 pm movie. And it became dinner and an early show….ha ha.
So much has changed since we started our movie dating journey all those years ago .
Covid kept us out of the theatre for 2 years.
Now we pay with coupons and we only go to matinees because there are less people there.
We sit in the handicapped section if we can.
We don’t usually go on Friday !!!
There are “lazyboy” theatre chairs in some theatres. And even meals and tables at some. Wow!
But the wonderful feeling of the opening credits and music announcing a new adventure about to begin still makes me feel so happy to be at the movies.
P.S. Perhaps my love of the movies started with my Dad. When he moved to Canada from England he would receive ‘two bits’ to go to the theatre near where he lived every single week.
Happy 90th today, Daddy.