Confession, y'all. I did a bad thing. I know I should feel sort of guilty about it, yet I slept like a baby last night. Ugh, the torment!
See, I've been a pretty straight-laced kinda gal. Don't much care for breaking the rules. But then I'm not sure if it's because I want to do the right thing--or because I don't want to get caught doing a bad thing. Oooo....
At the movies with the hubs and a friend this weekend (we saw Body of Lies, not bad, not bad), we had the idea to go for a double-header. You know, two movies, one night. It's fun, you should try it. Anywho, so we start roaming around the halls to find a movie that a) we want to see and b) hasn't already started. We land on Burn After Reading which, as fate would have it, started in only fifteen minutes.
Now, I just assumed that we would exit the theatre, purchase tickets, and re-enter as good, law-abiding citizens would do. However, as hubs and friend got that devilish twinkle in their eyes, I realized that this was not the plan.
And so...we did it. We casually entered the theatre as if we were paying customers only...we weren't.
Now, it wasn't a sold out theatre or anything. And there were a few other folks in there. And the theatre runs the movie anyway, whether there's people watching or not. So...what's the big deal, right?
Not ironically, there was something wrong with the film and Burn After Reading--which really isn't that good anyway, to my shock and awe--was a little bit blurry the whole time. We couldn't complain of course because we didn't have any tickets, you see. Karma, leave me be.
Under the circumstances described above, was it wrong to sneak into said movie? I can't lie, I feel a little guilty about it. But then the hubs says I'm just being a baby. And Friend gave me a speech about the importance of civil disobedience.
Thoughts, rebels?
4 comments:
you got engaged after knowing your now husband for 3 weeks?? you are anything but straight-laced, my dear.
Hmm, you make an excellent point.
Civil Disobedience isn't really seeing two movies for the price of one. Though what I heartily support is buying a ticket for some independent, deserving film...and then actually sneaking into the latest blockbuster. Sometimes I really just want to see crap...but at least my money will go to something more deserving.
This is complicated, and I have to admit I MAY have done it sometime in my shady past. I would say that every once in a great while, you are not hurting anyone. If this was your standard policy, well that would be different. So I guess this time it is no harm, no foul.
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