I don’t usually usually smuggle food/drink in, I usually don’t feel the need to snack while watching a movie.
Some of the posts though, remind me of when I was young, dumb, and stupid (i.e. teenaged male). A friend and I decided to go see a movie, and further decided we were going to smuggle two Miller GD longnecks in (Yep, smuggling and underage drinking, remember teenage males). I’m a pretty big guy, so I stuck the bottles in the sleeves of my coat as we got to the theater. The usher, probably suspicious of a coat being worn in relatively decent weather asked me to raise my arms. I did so, and his eyes got large, I figured we were busted, but he just hurriedly passed us through. I told my friend I couldn’t understand the whole episode. He laughed and said “Dude, when you lifted your arms, they were bigger than Schwarzenegger’s!” Which, when I thought about it, under a coat, a longneck beer bottle would resemble a bicep…
tallinu, I’m with you. I can’t understand why people can’t sit for two hours without pigging down on food. It used to be that the loud crackling wrappings and crunchy foods bothered me, but now the theaters play it loud enough for the deaf to feel the dialogue through vibrations rather than needing to read captions. But smuggling food never seemed worthwhile, and buying it seemed less worthwhile.
And if you need to smuggle in alcohol in order to enjoy the film, why not just wait for the Jim Carrey movies to come out on video and enjoy them in your own sloppy drunken stupor at home? That way, there’s no concern about the drive home.
When I was knee high to a grasshopper, many years ago, we used to smuggle in Royal Castle dime burgers into the movies in my Mother’s purse. I’m sure they smelled those delicious, long gone mini-burgers of the cool past, but they never bothered us. Back then, anyhow, 50 cents got you a Big box of popcorn and candy bars were 10 cents. The burgers were 10 cents each and usually came with delicious grill fried, diced onions on them.
Just want to say that I have never worked in a theater that kept popcorn overnight. Every place I have worked (three different chains now…) prided themselves on fresh popcorn. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times and people are getting wiser, or maybe I just worked for less disgusting theaters.
Some places I’ve been in have signs that say no food or drink, others don’t care. Go figure.
I’ll buy popcorn at the theater, but I’ll bring sodas or candy on my own. I also enjoy leaving the soda can in the cupholder (especially in the “no food or drink” places) as a way of saying “Ha!”
