Is Going To The Movies Alone A Psycho Move?

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So this was a question I had to deal with myself while sitting in my apartment on Monday night. Is going to the movies by yourself a psycho move? Last week I was on vacation in North Carolina so basically I was blackout drunk every night from Tuesday to Sunday, spent a million dollars at the bar and had 3.67 left in my bank account. Needless to say when I got back to my apartment Monday afternoon the scaries had never been realer.  As I was sitting on my couch I saw a commercial for Mad Max – Fury Road, a movie I had literally heard nothing but good things about, everyone and their mother saying how it was the greatest action movie of all time, 98 on rotten tomatoes, all that shit. Then it dawned on me that I had a bunch of movie passes in my wallet so I could actually go see it if I wanted to. Unfortunately neither of my roomates were around but since I had already gotten my hopes up about going and had nothing to do, so I had to seriously consider going out in public and seeing a movie alone.

When you think about it, there is literally no difference to going to the movies by yourself or going with a friend or a girlfriend. If your with a friend you maybe say a couple words about if you like certain previews or not and maybe a couple words during the movie if it reminds you both of something but in no way are you guys having full fledged conversations unless your both assholes. If your with your girlfriend shes most likely telling you how shes bored, this movie sucks, she doesn’t get it or how you should have seen the other romantic comedy that she wanted to see. The only reason to not go see a movie alone and I mean the only reason, is because you don’t want to see someone you know standing in line and have  to have the  “Hey, who are you here with?”   “oh no one I just came by myself”  and have them walk away thinking your a loser with no friends or a life that has to go sit in a movie by himself. That’s literally the only reason and ultimately why I didn’t end up seeing the film because rest assured, every time you go to the movies you are going to see someone you know, it might be someone you went to high school with, might be an old little league coach or teacher, might even be Jerry Thorton (no joke the last 3 times I’ve went to the Hanover movie theater I’ve ran into him) but you will see someone and that conversation will happen.

Ultimately I would say going to the movies alone is not a psycho move, if I lived in a place where I didn’t know anyone I would do it all the time, but its also probably not the most socially acceptable move either but I think next time I’m gunna throw caution to the wind, get a wig and do it.

 

PS- Full disclosure about this terrible blog, Sales guy came into my office a half hour ago and said Dave just called him and he said hes super backed up and has a meeting so tell Hank he has the blog as if I’m Feitelberg and am acutally a blogger so your welcome.