It was September , 1981. I just started the third grade. The third grade was the first odd year for me. Yes i had many odd years but this was the first. One of the reasons why it was odd. for the only time during my grade and
jr. high years , the bus route changed. for some odd reason , and I
only lived a mile and a half from the grade school , the route went from the grade school down the hill to the
jr.high. Then instead of turning left at the stop sign in beautiful downtown H
ockinson , it took a right. and went a good 3-5 miles to
davis road up
davis road to 212
th , took a left then went another 3-5 miles to my home. Along the way the bus would drop off (use nice word) kids at
their home or maybe it was a better home and they were
embarrassed by their home. who knows. So in all I lived 1.5 miles from the school. Class got out 3:10 , I was home 4:30. Good times.
But the best time was in
September 1981. I went to the movies for the first time by MY self at eight years old and I felt like a man.
I read in the paper that there was a double feature of Clash of the titans and
Dragonslayer playing at the Hazel Dell
Tri-cinemas. I had to go. I missed them that summer because the only thing on my mind that summer was Superman 2. Not even Raiders of the Lost Ark , my all time favorite movie , was not on my mind. ( That could be another post. Seeing Raiders was a great time too).
So I went. By myself. I had 5$ on me. my mother
and my sister
dropped me off. This is how I remembered it was
September. The movie playing in the big theater was M
ommie Dearest. I remember cause the poster
creeped me out. It was just
Faye dunnaway in a black and white poster but it
creeped me out and I looked on the
Internet when that
film came out and it came out in
September. now it was a double feature but I could only see Clash because the other started
later and I had school the next day.
So I walk in. Paid for my ticket. M
atinee was a dollar for
children at that time so I had 4$ left , went to the snack bar. I bought a snickers bar and a kids popcorn. I ate those together for the
first time that day. It was like heaven. It was so cool. I
'm by
myself , back row , and it
wasn't the biggest theater around. It was 200 seats if that. It was a three screen cinema , the biggest screen had maybe 750 seats. The other two were small and about half the size of the big theater.
But
I'm by myself. I
'm eight years old. Having the time of my life , by
myself. I
didn't have to wait for anyone to go to the bathroom. D
didn't have to hold a seat. Nothing. So i
'm sitting there waiting for the movie to come on. The lights go down. A preview came on. It was for the movie looker. This lady goes through glass out the
balcony. I freak out. I
don't say anything but
I'm like freaked out. Watched that movie years later , bad movie. Then the movie comes on ,
I'm watching , loving it. Then about an hour in , the scene where harry
Hamlin and
Andromeda are about to get married and the head falls off the statue and its
Maggie smith , the film stars going haywire. I freak out again. I
'm by myself there are a couple other people in the theater but I
'm by myself , it was kinda cool. The lights come back on and we wait. E
very time i watch clash of the titans and that scene comes on , I remember the film freaking out. Then the movie was done and I got up and left. I felt like a man because I saw a movie by myself. I really felt like a man after when I saw boobies in the movie and
I'm by
myself. Really good times.