Ok. So do you ever have those experiences that make you feel like you're in high school again? Well, Lysa and I, in what has become an annual tradition, went to see a horror movie last night. This year's movie of choice was "30 Days of Night" starring, easily the worst actor of our time (next to Keanu Reeves, of course), Josh Hartnett. The movie was pretty damn horrid from the start, so like incorrigable teenagers, Lysa and I whisper and laugh and make jokes at the movie's expense -- making it one helluva enjoyable experience for us. Cut to the end of said horrible movie and as we're leaving our row, a man comes up to us and the following exchange ensues:

Man: You owe me $18.
Me: Excuse me?
Man: You girls talked through the entire movie.
Lysa: Ok, well maybe you should've said something to us, then, early on.
Man: Um, you were warned in the beginning of the movie.
Lysa: WHAT?!!?
Man: Um, yeah, with that ad that says "Don't add your own soundtrack to the movie"!
Lysa (referring to a HEINOUS National Guard video that we were subjected to prior to the previews): Well, are you gonnna go out and join the National Guard too??!!?!
Man: You guys are just a couple of bitches.
Me: Y'know, maybe you should do something a little more constructive with your time, like attend some anger management classes. Or stay home where you can watch movies in silence.
Man: You have NO right to ruin the movie for everyone else.
Me: You're right and I'm sorry to have ruined such an EXCELLENT movie for you. If you had SAID something instead of being passive-agressive and stewing it over, maybe we wouldn't have ruined it for you.
Man: Oh, just go home to your cats!
Lysa: Go home to our cats?!!?! Ok, that actually sounds lovely I think we will.

The I'm making here is that it is quite likely that we were too loud at a couple of parts, but if no one SAYS anything then we can reasonably assume that our behavior is being tolerated. I understand that there is a code of silence rule while watchint movies that are good or great. But does society really require us to be silent during movies of the uttmost suckage? I'm sorry, but the soundtrack that Lysa and I added was 50 times better than the one the studio provided. Wouldn't it be nice if people could say, in an assertive way, not out of anger: "Hi, sorry to bug you, but your chatting is distracting me from the movie. Could you be quiet for the duration of the film"? And wouldn't it also be nice if the respondants were cooperative and non-defensive (as I trust Lysa and I WOULD have been if approached in this manner)? Is it possible that what is wrong with society today is that we simply don't ask for what we want and/or don't give others what they need? In the meantime we just fret away expecting people to read our minds. The saddest part is that there was a lesson to be taught there, and in our way of mirroring their aggression, we missed the opportunity to teach it.