Good morning, Sparkies! Happy Fluffy Thursday! 
OMG, everyone talking during the movie! That's both terrible and hilarious! 
The movie sounds fun, though, glad you enjoyed it and had a great time! 
I grew up (and still live) just in back of a chemical plant. There's a bit of woods in between, so you can't see it. I don't remember this, but one time some yellow dye got into the air and made everything, including our dogs, turn yellow. Then when I was in high school, an old mill burned down on the other side of my neighborhood. The high school actually sent us home early because of it. Yeah, it made no sense.... the neighborhood is on fire... there's literally ash coming down in my back yard, so yeah send them home to that!
Holy smokes, you two!
I grew up in a nice, quiet suburban neighborhood where nothing much happened. Except... When I was very little, it rained so much (I think this was during an El Nino year) that the storm drains backed up and the entire neighborhood flooded. The water came up the steps but didn't get into the house itself; the crawlspace under our house was filled though (most of the houses on our street were built on crawlspaces so I think everyone was okay on that). This happened during the day, and the streets were so bad by the afternoon that my dad couldn't even get home and stayed at the office overnight. And then during the LA riots, the DMV office that was six blocks from my house got burned down.
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Turned out to be "senior day" at the movie theater, and the place was mobbed. The poor kiosks were not used, as everyone instead waited in line to buy tickets the old fashioned way. My sister asked me a question about the line (as I go to movies more than she does) and I was like "I don't know! I use the kiosk!" But the ticket was only $7.75, and then I got a tiny little "senior" popcorn and soda for $4. I was, by far, the youngest person in the theater. Honestly, my sister and her friends embarrassed me because they talked during the movie, and one friend had a phone that kept flashing. But other people were talking too. I told them before the movie how little kids are better behaved than older adults, and it's true.
The movie was pretty funny. I don't know if you'd like it if you aren't Patriots fans, though.
One of the women was a mathematician, which cracked me up as I am math girl myself.
The movie was pretty funny. I don't know if you'd like it if you aren't Patriots fans, though.
One of the women was a mathematician, which cracked me up as I am math girl myself. The movie sounds fun, though, glad you enjoyed it and had a great time!
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A few years ago, when my grandparents were still alive so that has to be more than 5 years ago... (sorry, years blur together when there's a pandemic in there somewhere)... we went to a movie together. It's the film adaptation of a play. The play follows a family for 9 weeks while a strike breaks out at a factory and one of the workers this factory writing a letter to the king of Belgium to tell him about how the factory is polluting/contaminating the area around the place, and how people are getting sick because of it.
The worker is fictional, but the factory and the pollution is very real... and yes, that factory is located near the village where I grew up**. Everybody who lives in the area knows it.
(there was also an ammunitions factory which occasionally had to deal with ammunitions / chemicals exploding)
Anyhow, we went to see the film in a small theater nearby (which no longer exists either) with my grandparents, parents and aunt... and it was the first and last time I was in a cinema with my grandparents and it was awesome to see them. They were well behaved though. No talking.
** I also lived in the nuclear radius where if something were to happen at the nuclear facility, you're dead within minutes. Did I mention I glow in the dark?
The worker is fictional, but the factory and the pollution is very real... and yes, that factory is located near the village where I grew up**. Everybody who lives in the area knows it.
(there was also an ammunitions factory which occasionally had to deal with ammunitions / chemicals exploding
)Anyhow, we went to see the film in a small theater nearby (which no longer exists either) with my grandparents, parents and aunt... and it was the first and last time I was in a cinema with my grandparents and it was awesome to see them. They were well behaved though. No talking.
** I also lived in the nuclear radius where if something were to happen at the nuclear facility, you're dead within minutes. Did I mention I glow in the dark?
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I grew up (and still live) just in back of a chemical plant. There's a bit of woods in between, so you can't see it. I don't remember this, but one time some yellow dye got into the air and made everything, including our dogs, turn yellow. Then when I was in high school, an old mill burned down on the other side of my neighborhood. The high school actually sent us home early because of it. Yeah, it made no sense.... the neighborhood is on fire... there's literally ash coming down in my back yard, so yeah send them home to that!
I grew up in a nice, quiet suburban neighborhood where nothing much happened. Except... When I was very little, it rained so much (I think this was during an El Nino year) that the storm drains backed up and the entire neighborhood flooded. The water came up the steps but didn't get into the house itself; the crawlspace under our house was filled though (most of the houses on our street were built on crawlspaces so I think everyone was okay on that). This happened during the day, and the streets were so bad by the afternoon that my dad couldn't even get home and stayed at the office overnight.
And then during the LA riots, the DMV office that was six blocks from my house got burned down.
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