Popcorn and a Movie

The other day, a buddy of mine invited me to a movie and so I went. I was running late, but I had to stop and get some popcorn and a soda… watching a movie without either one is… well, just not quite right… at least for me. I get my popcorn, a soda, ½ handful of napkins—I’ll need em’ and I plop down beside my buddy and ask him, ‘now what is this movie about.’ He answered, ‘I don’t really know.’ ‘Alrighty, I thought—it’s adventure time…’ The movie turned out to be ‘Slither’.

It turned out to be a ‘B’ or maybe a ‘C’ movie as it had a slim plot, bad acting, bad music score, well… just about bad everything… it was something akin to the ‘Blob’ and the ‘Dukes of Hazard’… yet, I was able to find many things very funny in the movie. For during the first of the movie I thought, we’ll this is going to be a very bad movie, I can either sit here complain about it or I can do something about it—like analyze all the funny mistakes in the film—so this I did. And you know what—I had a pretty good time… at the movie’s expense, but then who cares—it’s only entertainment anyway…

Sometimes life just throws us the totally unexpected. When that happens we can either immediately ‘react’ or we can take a moment and ‘not react’ and just see how life will play out…

I’m glad that I was able to turn something pretty crummy and see the funny side… it made the evening, at least for me, worth-while… and that popcorn... well, I ate too much, like I always do...