Everyday Randomness

BRRRR!

I just can’t get warm today.  I’ve been sitting here freezing for the last 2 hours.  What’s worse is I’m wrapped up in a big fleece blanket and a huge sweatshirt.  It’s not that cold outside.  It’s 50 now, and that’s after the temperature started to drop a little.  I even have my floor heater right here beside me blasting away.  I keep telling hubby that if losing a little weight means I’m going to be cold all the time, I’m going to put those 15lbs back on!

This morning hubby and I decided we’d wait until next weekend to go see our movie.  Our thinking was that maybe it’ll be playing at the local theater by then.  Nope.  I called the local theater this afternoon to ask when it would start playing, and we were told it won’t.  Why?  The local Cinema 8 used to be an Amstar theater.  It was bought out last year, and the new owners won’t allow any movies with a rating over PG-13 in their theater.  That totally blows.  So either way we’re stuck driving all the way to Anderson to see the movie.

I mean I was a teenager when the South Park movie came out, and I remember we were all super pissed because the local theater refused to play it back then.  But that was because a bunch of parents stood outside the theater on the movie’s opening day basically boycotting the movie.

Instead it played in Clemson at the dollar theater, so it was kind of a win win for us.  See the awesome movie for $1, and only have to drive 10 minutes out of the way.  Plus the dollar theater is located right smack in the middle of downtown Clemson surrounded by college students and bars.  Back then you didn’t need an id to get into a bar if you were a girl.  You just had to look cute and flirt with the bouncers.  Like I said that was a per movie basis though.

I understand the people who own the theater have a right to choose what movies are played in their theater and which ones aren’t, but can you imagine the amount of business they’re losing since they made the decision to ban rated R movies?  We were having a movie discussion with my little cousin a few weeks ago.  He used to work at the local theater, and he was ranting on how it had totally gone down hill.  He pointed out that in “our day” (being maybe 10 years ago) that the parking lot was always packed.  These days you see maybe 30 cars for a Friday night show.