Mondays with Mom: Episode 3

I have been a terrible blogger. We have been crazy busy and I have so much to catch up on. Mom, however has been awesome. She has already written next weeks as well! She's great. I thought I would give you some random facts about my mom before I let her tell you her story about matinee movies.

Karen:

• taught school 24 years , retired 3 years ago
• is one of four girls- Jenny, Ruby, Karen & Janice
• lived in Virginia her whole life, until she met my Dad
• is a born again Christian and walks her faith daily
• was the editor of her high school yearbook
• was homecoming queen
• was pigeon toed when she was a little girl
• has been married to my dad 34 years

Without further ado...Monday with Mom.

Lavender & Icy Hot

Matinees are great ideas, No phones going off, no giggling from all the preteens, and no long lines... that's on the surface. The first time i went to a matinee I was with a friend. We went to a new, small neighborhood theater ..there was no real, live person to take our money...we had to use the automated machine! Neither of us had purchased tickets in this manner, and my friend only brought cash, so together we had to figure the new automated -system out. We DID SO, AND FELT QUITE EMPOWERED...

The experience wasn't as quiet as I had expected, as there were about a dozen or so older women in our theater. They all felt free to laugh loudly, and get up and leave in the middle of the movie to run to the bathroom. Some of us even texted quietly or checked Facebook pages since there were no large crowds to bother.

After the movie, my friend and I critiqued our experience.  I stated that I really thought matinees would be the way to go from now on.  I said that I really like the experience, except that I really thought the theater smelled like old  people...I kept smelling Bengay and lavender.
  

As we drove to our next destination, I kept thinking about the smells we had left behind, and began to realize something...the smells were in the car with us. I had used an icy hot patch to mask the pain in my knee, and when I mentioned it to my friend, she started laughing. She remembered that she put on some lavender lotion that was in the theater restroom, near the sink...and she could still smell that! I smelled us...we WERE the old people smell! We couldn't stop laughing. And ...Yes, we might have been the two women that held up the traffic when the light turned green:)

  Stay tuned next week for, "There's no glitter in this line"