When I was younger I used to spend a lot of my money going to the movies.
For one thing, there weren’t many other options in our area.
We did not live in a bustling city where you could walk outside and find something fun to entertain yourself. Instead, we had to drive several towns over to arrive at a movie theater where we could zone out for a few hours with popcorn in hand. Eventually, I realized that I did not like modern movies anymore, however. I felt like all of the big production companies were putting out garbage. It also didn’t help that I had several extremely unfortunate indoor air temperature control experiences at the major movie theaters. It felt like every time I went to see a flick, I needed to bring a heated blanket with me to offset the ridiculous amount of air conditioning that they were pumping into every theater. Somehow, every movie theater decided that their patrons wanted the indoor air temperature to be at roughly 40 degrees. It felt like sitting in a walk-in cooler, rather than enjoying a movie with a commercial air conditioning system churning away in the background. I would always bring several sweatshirts with me to offset the horrendous low air temperature that marked every movie going experience. However, even my extra layers of clothing we’re not enough to overcome the drafty, brutally cold experience of having air conditioning blasted on you for 3 hours straight. The day that I couldn’t feel my fingers and toes sitting in a movie theater was the day that I left that air-conditioned nightmare in the middle of a movie and never went back.