Today I discovered that the cheaper movie theater in town (along with the more expensive movie theater in town) no longer offers a student discount on Friday or Saturday nights. This was especially hurtful to me for three reasons: 1. I only ever want to go to the movies on a Friday or a Saturday, 2. I am a student again and really wanted to use my ID, 3. Our economy is still very much in the toilet, should the movie industry really be getting rid of what little perks were previously offered for an undoubtedly vital demographic? I miss the days when I had a friend working at the movies and I could see every movies for free, and I did. Despite all of this, I am sufficiently excited to see “The Hunger Games” this weekend to forgive the greedy movie industry. 

The weather has been really great lately, so J and I went for a long walk. Our route took us past my old high school where we observed a group of young boys throwing bolts and assorted other items into the road in hopes that an unlucky car would run over one of the objects and somehow suffer from it. Apparently, this was great fun because they were taking up the entire sidewalk in this adventure. Unable to go around them, I decided the only way out was through. Despite their hoodlum behavior and appearance, I decided that being polite could not hurt. And so with a steady stream of “excuse mes” and “thank yous” we walked through. Just as we were passing, I heard one of the boys start to rap, “lady on the right, being so polite” then he rapped something about J’s sunglasses that I can’t repeat because I don’t remember how the rhyme went. The whole thing was quite amusing and though it doesn’t translate too well into words, I hope that anyone reading this can picture the scene and get at least a smile out of it. It seems being polite never hurts.