Traveling Thoughts

For Top Secret Tuesday this week, I’m going to discuss the peculiarities of movie theatres (the ones I have at least).

I go to movies often, at the end of the year if you count up all my ticket stubs you’re looking at at least 52 movies (1 a week) there have been years where I saw over 70 movies, I think the year I saw the most movies it was over 80 and that’s because Star Wars Episode 3 was seen 12 times.

There’s really only 1 theatre that I’ll go to simply because I have self determined the best place to sit based on being in the sounds of the movie and the picture. I don’t like the super souped up theatre because of the way it was designed and I’m not a fan of the dollar theatre so I go to the middle class theatre (as I so refer to it).

When I was little I used to sit far up top because I thought that was the best place, I don’t know what I was thinking, because it wasn’t the best place, you see all of everybody below you and that’s just not cool. Now adays, at the one theatre I go to, I sit in the 5th-6th row, 6th row being my preferred row, 5th if the 6th is not available. If there’s an odd number of seats, I count and sit in the middle one. If there’s an even number of seats, I’ll test the middle two and see which one feels more middlish before settling in.

There used to be a time when I would show up 10 minutes after the starting time because then I could avoid most of the previews and just watch the movie. I now show up early because chances are if I’m planted in my seat early on then no one will sit in the seats immediately next to me, which I appreciate. I have this issue with people sitting right next to me, some of them are too big for their seats so they overflow into my space, some of them insist on making small talk with you, and some are just unhygienically acceptable and shouldn’t have been allowed out in public in the first place before taking a bath. I know that that’s harsh, but that’s me.

There’s not much I hate at the theatres (in general, up there was personal) except for the inconsiderate parents that bring their crying children, the people that insist on sitting in the theatre and talk the entire movie (seriously, if you wanted to talk why did you come to the movie), and peeps and their cell phones (although by sitting fairly close to the front I don’t much encounter this anymore).