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I hadn't gone to the movies for a long time, mainly because of my work and because when I go home,  I'm always busy watching my Novelas from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. weekdays on Univision.  On Saturdays, we rest up after a hard work week or catch up on my assignments or we're out of town.

Anyway, this past weekend, I had the urge for a good movie so since Slum Dog Millionaire won a ton of Oscars, I wanted to watch this one.  I also wanted to see how I could become a millionaire since I feel like I'm also in the slums.  Well, we hadn't had dinner yet so we figured we pick up a couple of snacks in the theater.  We finally made it to the 9:35 p.m. viewing and purchased two tickets which I knew were going to cost close to $20 bucks.  No problem, I've paid this before.

Now for dinner....I couldn't wait.  There was no line so I jumped right in and almost collapsed when I saw the price of a coke.   Dang, $5.50 for a medium coke???  I could buy a couple of cases for that price at Costco.  Alma wanted popcorn.  "Small, Medium or large" asks the clerk?  I looked at the posted prices and again I was taken back.........$6.00??? for a small popcorn??  I told the clerk I could buy a whole lot of popcorn for $6.00 bucks.  He looked apologetic and said, "I know, I'm sorry, the prices are high".

Oh what the heck, digging into my pockets for extra change.  But I knew that the coke wasn't enough for dinner so I ordered the next best thing, some Nachos.  Again the prices were so high, I almost went hungry.  I check both pants pockets and found a couple more bucks.  A popcorn, coke and nachos took me back to about $18.00.  Well, we don't go to the movies very much so I figured, might as well splurge eh!!  So over $35.00 for this night out.

So once the movie started, I found out that we couldn't just relax, watch and listen to the movie..........NO!!   We had to read the translated words...dang!!  So we spent over an hour and a half sitting at the edge of our seats "reading".  Alma had it a little harder but she understood what was going on.

I learned how the Slumdog became a Millionaire.  Now, if that could only happen to me!  I know that reading is good for you and perhaps I will someday be asked questions about the reading I did this night.  I got to tell you though, that if you can't read, you'll need someone to do the reading for you.  But don't talk so loud otherwise you'll be attacked by flying popcorn.

Well, what's my next movie?  I think a nice DVD movie would fit our budget nicely.  If I fall asleep, I can always start it from scratch again.  Alma, do we have membership at the movie rental place?