Quality parking from the farmer, not many cars, or bikes, or dog walkers passing here for a while.
Some times you just need to pass stuff…..
Like a fine wine or malt, they get better with the years. That’s ME…
So NOT the case….
I remember a few decades back and a trip to the cinema was a pleasure and not torture. As many Kia-Ora cartons as my Paperboy job would pay for, not forgetting a small tub of ice cream if the person on the door could find the office keys. Then bring on the movie, short or long. Then bring on hiding under the seats at the end of the movie and then getting to watch the movie all over again. Never a need to bolt to the toilets, which was a good thing as the toilets at our towns beach cinema would often flood at high tide.
It’s all changed now.
A brand new cinema has replaced the old battered Picture House.
My bladder has clearly been replaced with a small thimble.
Kia-Ora replaced with seriously overpriced black coffee.
Movies seem very very long and are now absolute torture.
🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽
Today’s Marvel Epic was just 100 minutes long yet to my lower regions it felt like back to back Gone with the Wind’s. The pre movie trailers had just about started to roll when the first pangs of regret started for buying a coffee. As the movie started I was shifting uneasily. Halfway through and I was seriously preoccupied with matters of state. And as the heroic ending played out, I was having an out of body experience. I now know how John Hurt’s character in the Alien felt like just before the pesky alien popped out…..
BUSTING….
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
LOL!!
I don’t go to theaters anymore… waaaay too expensive & the younger gen thinks phones & convo are fine.
I’m *considering* going to a “sensory friendly” showing of Elf, to experience it. The lights stay on, the volume is lower, and people are welcome to walk/dance/sing/whatever.
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Thankfully out tv package gives 2 free cinema tickets a month because it is really pricey
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That’s cool!
The only deal I’ve seen here is a major chain offering unlimited movies for $23/mo. Still not worth it to me.
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We’ve all been there.😁
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Sadly
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That’s too funny. Some countries actually offer intermissions for movies. You may want to invest in adult diapers one day. 😆
How did you like The Marvels? Did Hawklad watch it with you? How did he enjoy it, if so? I’m debating whether to watch or wait till it streams. Nothing beats a cinema experience though.
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If it’s near 4 hours our cinema has a few showings which have 10 minute intermissions.
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It was a very short but entertaining movie.
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Definitely
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👍🏼
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My experience with that feeling was with Lord of the Rings, the first one, lol
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It’s was the third one for me, watched it after a trip to the pub….
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Oh no!!!lol Bad mistake, lol
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💚💚
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❤️❤️
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Coffee or tea to be avoided if you have plans. It’s funny how it doesn’t have the same effect when you have ready access to a facility! Movies used to be fun, I haven’t been in years as I can’t stay awake!
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That is so true, other problem is Hawklad likes to sit on front row, so have to do the walk of shame to the back to get to the toilets
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😆 🤣 😂 hearing about a bladder saga has never been so entertaining even though it is serious business.
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Thank you
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This is how it was with me when in a protest camp site, during the morning, wanting to pee, but not wanting to get up and get cold. To hold on and on and on, to be able to do it and not burst forth, well it’s a gift.
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A friend of mine was stuck in a lift for 8 hours once, apparently he sprinted when the doors were finally opened.
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That mental image made me cough/laugh, with a good job my bladder was empty!
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Hahahaha, excellent, l know the feeling all too well. Not with the movies but when gardening in client’s green spaces with no access or hidden corners to relieve oneself in, and your pace speeds up the closer you get to home … then the frantic nonsense of having to decamp boots, gloves, l near on wet myself every time!
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I bet that’s a nightmare. My dad would always take a couple of empty plastic pop bottles with him to the allotment
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Hey Gary, mm, the bottles for gardening would work, the allotment is much easier as l can simply take a hidden pee in a bucket in the shed and dispose of it on the compost 🙂
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🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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