Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

I think I'd turn around and leave if a movie theater employee decided to search me, assuming I hadn't already bought my ticket.

I tried to convince Sarah that we should buy a fake pregnant lady stomach for her to wear and fill it up with candy. Then we would also have to smuggle in a plastic baby, so that as we leave the movie, it wouldn't be suspicious that her stomach got smaller.

this all sounds very elaborate. Just sneak shit in, that's all. It's not hard. You're just afraid of embarrassment.

They didn't really "search" us at the Logan, just asked to look in Sarah's purse. They also made this dude check his messenger bag, without looking in it. I agree it's pretty lame, but if they're selling tickets at $3 each, they're probably making all of their profit from concessions.

Which is why we snuck in candy.

They may also be looking for guns/Mickey's.

While you're at it, sneak into another movie after the one you paid for. A whole afternoon of air conditioning! They do not pay attention, believe me. :)

well, i don't know about the logan. But multiplexes are ripe for all kinds of exploitation.

I can take planning, though... you have to figure out which movie you want to vote with your dollar on, see that one first, and sneak into the movie that you figure doesn't need your dollar. Pay for the indie film, sneak into "Pirates," that kinda thing.

Search: Secret zippered compartment in virtually every purse ever made.

Destroy: People who sneak in foods that have a very strong odor OR booze that causes them to behave like baffoons and/or litter.

Quiet booze drinkers and non-odor food sneakers, I have no problem with you. I sneak food into virtually every movie theater I visit.

"You're my buddy Dewar's. I'm gonna sneak you into the movies in my tummy!"

(approximately one of you will get that reference.)

"At least one thing will go smoothly today."

Do people really sneak booze into the movies? That's a level of sad that I have heretofore managed to avoid.

My Mickey's/not-Champagne stories are the only two times I have done so.

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

I've never had any desire to sneak booze into the movies. (I'm using booze to mean "alcoholic bevvies.")

What's sad about sneaking booze into movies?!

this:

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

In fact, I got a beer at the Siskel on Friday and only drank like 1/3 of it. Mistake!

With the not-Champagne, I was supposed to go to a play opening with some friends, but we got there at 8 only to find that it started at 7:30, and I had brought a bottle of not-Champagne for a Franco-American actress in the cast, and so the bunch of us bought paper cups at the White Hen and brought the whole thing into the Davis.

P.S., I meant to ask El Lechero about how he ended up shooting Chicago from the corncob towers.

Oh! I knew you would notice that! We know a guy who lives there.

But when you go to one of those cool theaters that serve alcohol, wouldn't you get a beer?

By not-Champagne, do you mean a Champagne-style beverage not actually from the region of Champagne? And by Franco-American actress, do you mean a woman who shills for Spaghetti-Os?

xp - If I wanted one, I would. But I wouldn't get one just because it was there.

We are very different people.

I guess we can never be sisters.

:(

Don't people have drunk sisters?

I was going to make a sorority joke but I don't know the names of any actual sororities.

http://www.music.vt.edu/people/students/TBS/images/2001/sorority.jpg

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/25/58/22405825.jpg

^would party with

http://www.alicepaul.org/images/Alice%20sorority.jpg

I love those ladies. Look at them! They're so serious.

What the fuck is sad about sneaking booze into a movie? Do you think that the Brew and View at the Vic is sad too?

I once snuck a bottle of bubbly and to-go sushi into a movie.

SO HUNGRY YOU GUYS!

Jordan, I eat really fast, too. I think it means we are evolutionarily superior.

I love movie snacks in part because my mom would never let my sisters and me get them growing up. lately I have a real partiality to getting a hot dog at movie theaters. is that gross?

I have never actually snuck booze into a theater, but it seems like a good idea.

but I am sympathetic to Amanda's point. every time I've been to the Brew and View the second movie is inaudible because of drunken yahoos.

drunks with a sense of shame and civics are fine with me, though.

I would expect as much at the Brew and View, because that's what it is. But to hear cans opening and falling on the floor at a regular movie theater irritates me. At least have the decorum to bring a quiet flask!

What the fuck is sad about sneaking booze into a movie?

alright alright, christ, i take it back. I was thinking more of what eric was talking about, like having a half pint of something strong in your jacket to keep you from feeling sick. That's all I meant by "sad."

I guess when I think of "booze" I'm not thinking of beer or wine or anything but the hard stuff.

Uh I have never heard of anyone sneaking alcohol anywhere for that reason, Kenan. Maybe I've been hanging out with the wrong/right crowd?

Jesse: You inspired me, and I bought a watch today. It is this:

http://www.swissarmy.com//images/ProductCatalog/sa/sa_24656_sol_a03.jpg

The band is actually leather wrapped in cloth, for maximum durability. I figure, I'm not buying another watch for a long, long while. It's not like shoes or something.

There is a dude at work with a nerd watch. It's in binary or something. What kind of asshole wears a watch that no one else can read?

Wait, why in the WORLD would you wear a watch for other people to read?? It's like the most basic thing about a watch that it's turned to face you when you hold your arm up. If it was for other people, it would be upside-down. Or something! If you want to know the time from someone, YOU ASK THEM.

I guess I was thinking of when you ask someone for the time, and they hold out their watch for you to see. Which I guess is kind of rude anyway? I don't know, I haven't worn a watch since high school.

Yeah, me neither -- that's what cell phones are for.

ok, anyway...

thanks to jesse for the "buy a watch" idea and jeff for the big-ups of the swiss army brand... I am very happy with my purchase. I believe I got something attractive-yet-practical enough for any occasion.

Yeah, me neither -- that's what cell phones are for.

heh... there's a thread somewhere where I go off on how stupid it is to have a watch. I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.