For me, going to the movies used to be more than just sitting in the dark, watching the flick. It was the whole experience, from arriving an hour ahead of time to smuggling McDonald's food into the theater with us to laughing at the various freaks sitting around us. Nowadays I am more pragmatic and prone to show up on time and sit there impatiently tapping my foot. In high school and college, I had the luxury of excessive amounts of free time that allowed me to pretend that movie theaters were my own private sitting room.

One time in high school some friends and I went to see The Doors during spring break. Being us, young and with no where else to go during the day, we arrived super early, loaded up on noshies, and headed in to kill time in the theater. It was pitch black and smelled of piss. Which was a surprise, because this was not a bad cinema.

We stumbled through the dark and found seats. Thinking ourselves alone, we chattered like airheads until one of my friends started complaining about being unable to eat her nachos since she couldn't see to guide them to her mouth. Which was weird enough right there.

Being pyros, one of us lit a match to help her out. Three seconds later this voice boomed out from the lower right hand of the theater, "THANKS! NOW WE CAN SEE YOU!"

We screamed like girly-girls and dropped the match, then cowered in the dark trying to chew quietly until the movie started.

Once it did, a preview came on for T2. At one point, Arnold, famously, says, "Ah'll be bock."

"Hey dude!" One of our new theater buddies yelled. "I'll be waiting!"

Then the movie started and went on and on for three hours. By the end of it all of us were slumped down in our seats with our legs completely propped over the seats in front of us.

But it wasn't a complete wash, because it had Kyle McLachlan in it and all. Thumbs up to Agent Cooper!