Solitary Movie Confinement

Sometimes I go see movies by myself.

Here's what I do. I get to the movie about 5 minutes after it starts. The previews are just finishing up and I dont miss any of the movie. I always tend to go to the movies by myself when its really busy too. I dont know why. This is the good part. I go after everyone has found their spot. I look to find someone else by themselves and I sit next to them. See? It's perfect! Now we're both not alone. So I can pretend like we're good friends. This is best to do when the movie theater is crowded. Because if you sit next to someone when the theater is kind of empty, thats just weird. So I pretend we are silent friends. Laughing in unison but never looking at each other or talking. We'll probably be too tired to talk after the movie and we'll just go our separate ways until next time.

So I watched Knowing and the theater was just packed. I sat down next to this older gentleman who was by himself. He had a hat on. I imagined there was a feather in it too. Maybe he was a journalist or something. Real old school hollering about deadlines. Well, about 2 minutes into the movie, he scoots over a chair. Away from me! Could you imagine? Like I am weird or something. I mean, he's the older scary guy. Jeez. I must remind him of his dead daughter or something like that. It's really the only reason he would have done such a thing.