Dropcorn

We're staying at my in-laws while we're in between houses so the kids and I went down to PA to visit my brother and his family for a few days. It was a good opportunity to change environments for awhile as well as get in a good visit with them.

Anyway, yesterday before we came home Erin (my sister in law) and I took all the kids to see "Up". We got drinks and a big bag of popcorn for everyone to share. Erin sat on one end, I on the other, and the 4 kids in between. Right as the movie was beginning a gaggle of people came in and filed into the row in front of us. It seeemd to be a bunch of 11-ish year old boys and some women.

As the movie starts we keep passing the bag of popcorn around and give each kid a handful on a napkin in their lap..but since it's 4 kids who are 5 or younger, more ends up on the floor than in their mouths.

About halfway through the movie I notice a lot of movement from the row in front of us, in front of Erin. It was a good movie, so I was trying to pay attention to it, but all this movement kept catching the corner of my eye. I look over at Erin (since it was in front of her) and she is trying her hardest to control her laughter. She looks at me and points to the boy sitting in front of her.

So I start watching him and he promptly turns halfway around, reaches back and grabs a handful of popcorn that had fallen on the floor by our kids' feet and begins to eat it! It was really dark in the theater so maybe that's not what happened, I reasoned to myself.

I keep watching the kid and sure as shit he does it again! I looked at Erin who was already looking at me and we both just burst out laughing. It's not like this kid was even trying to make it a covert operation...he was blatently reaching behind him and grabbing this popcorn off the floor. Erin and I tried our hardest to not be loud about our laughter, but we couldn't help it. Fortunately it was a funny movie.

There was only a finite amount of popcorn on the floor, so soon enough the kid had eaten everything within his reach. He kept looking back to see if he had gotten it all, so obviously he was still hungry. I felt bad, so I grabbed a handful of popcorn and tossed it on the floor in front of the kids. Without skipping a beat the kid reached back and swooped it up!! I couldn't control myself, i was laughing so hard. I felt like I was feeding pigeons in the park! I knew it was wrong to play into this, but it was too damn funny.

Seeing this go on gave me mixed feelings of emotions: On the one hand I was happy that we decided to go to that particular showing of that particular movie on that particular day so that I could witness that. But it also made me sad to think of how much other funny stuff is happening out there that I'm NOT seeing.

I can't wait to see what happens when I go to Lowe's later on today!!!