Last night Meghan spent the night with one of her friends, so Alan and I decided to go to a movie. Of course the one we wanted to see (Ghost Writers) started when I was getting off work. We had two other back ups ( Bounty Hunter and The Hot Tub Time Machine) that were dependent on how fast we go get to the theater after I was off work. Well we ended up with The Hot Tub Time Machine. Now to begin with this a R rated movie. that was the 1st clue that it might not be suitable for children. We walk into the theater and their is a mother with her three kids (Meghan's age and younger) sitting in the row in front of us. As we sit down, I think, "I hope she researched the movie thoroughly before coming with her kids to see this".
The movie starts and while it stupidly funny, you can tell within the 1st 10 - 15 minutes that this movie is grossly inappropriate for children. I expected that at any moment the mother and kids would get up and leave. Much to my surprise and horror, they stayed for the entire show. While Alan was in the restroom, the mother is walking by with the kids and telling them that was a movie they really should not have seen. Gee, you think?
After the movie, we went to eat dinner. It is now 11:55 so our choices were limited to say the least. So we went to Denny's because we do have a favorite waitress there who is really good. We get seated in a booth that is in between two other groups. The group at the table behind Alan was a group of four that were the age of our parents. The one wife in the group had obviously way too much to drink before she got to Denny's. She was exceedingly loud. She was telling stories about her grandchildren ages 12 and 7. She even gave sound effects that were even louder. When they ordered, her husband was concerned about how the ham was processed and tied the waitress up with this for about 10 minutes. Dude, you either want the ham or you don't want the ham. It is after midnight, does it really matter? The group seating behind me had been pretty quiet to this point and then there food arrived and the "woke up". Suddenly they f this, f that. I 'll kick your @**. They were just crude and obnoxious. As they spoke i was reminded that my grandmother used to say that people that spoke like that only showed how uneducated and limited their vocabulary really was. It makes you wonder how many of us manage to live such drama free lives.
