Angst In My Pants
If you have ever wanted to make an estimate of how many people will be in Hell, let me help–start by counting the landlords, insurance agencies, and movie theater concession stand price-setters.
I went to the movies the other day and noticed that a large drink is now $165. A small popcorn is $39.95. This is why I don’t feel guilty sneaking food into theaters. In fact, I think I could fire-bomb the concession stand on the way to my seat and not feel a thing.
Has anyone ever been caught sneaking-in food? Even my most half-hearted attempts have been successful. I am pretty sure I could balance an overflowing basket of candy on my head like an Indian woman bearing goods to the market and no one would notice. That being said, let me tell you one way NOT to smuggle food into the theater.
Disclaimer
This is a heartbreaking and frightening tale, and I will be using the word “testicles” at least twice. If this is too much for you, please leave now.
Still with me? Ok, Let’s continue.
Leaving the grocery store, on the way to the movie, I realized I was not wearing clothes that facilitated the hiding of candy. For the record, this was several years ago–I believe I was 21 (and obviously brilliant). I had a can of soda and a bag of Sour Patch Kids from one of those bulk-candy bins. I took the can of soda and dropped it in the candy bag and then slid the bag down inside the front of my pants. If anyone noticed, what could they say?
Pleased with myself, I strolled conspicuously past the ticket-taker and into the theater. I retrieved the bag of candy and the soda can and sat down to enjoy the movie.
It wasn’t long before I started to feel a strange itchy sensation in my crotch. I tried to ignore it and watch the movie, but the itching increased and turned into a burning that left me squirming and my forehead sweating. It felt like my testicles were on fire, and I had no clue why. What disease had I contracted from sitting in the movie theater?! Can you get the clap from sitting on an upholstered chair?!
Abandoning any pretense of decorum (much as I have done here by writing about my testicles) I reached down my pants to see if I had somehow caught fire. Surprisingly, instead of hot coals, I found what felt like beach sand. No, not beach sand…Sour Patch Kid acid-sugar! My underwear was full of citric acid!
Apparently the bag of candy had a hole in the corner which funneled Sour Patch death-sugar into my underwear. I had not imagined that sour-sugar could burn your flesh like a blowtorch. It can.
I was now at the point of crying like a baby, so I left my seat and tried not to sob too loudly as I made my way out of the theater. I hurried to the bathroom where I grabbed a couple handfulls of wet paper towels and gave myself a desperate sponge-bath in the stall. Now mostly sugar-free, but surely having lost several years of my life, I returned to my seat where I watched the rest of the movie rocking back and forth in the fetal position.
If any of you have ever thought, “Those sour candies sure look good! I bet they would be terrific on my testicles.”–I am begging you,don’t do it, IT IS HELL!