Love in the times of Movies

Movies and the movie going experience - they are an important aspect of our lives, and a very important aspect of lives when you are dating, more so in the early days of the relationship, but nevertheless there all the time.

Thanks to all the multiplexes, it's a much improved experience. And you will notice the difference only when you revisit a non-multiplex after a long time and realise that no matter what you do, half the front screen will definitely be covered by the head of the person sitting right in front of you.

In such situations it definitely does not help that the movie is a little boring, very confusing and never ending. It might help though that its mushy romantic, and you can lean over to that special someone's side on the pretext of getting a better view, even if at the end of three and a half hours, you have a slight back-ache. Oh! The prices we pay for love!!!

All that is still fine - what is really wicked is that when you are on the "date-movie" you will always end up running into people you know, and more often than not they will end up occupying the seats right next to you. You will run into friends, family friends, colleagues, relatives, distant relatives - all of who will magically conjure right next to you. And don't even get me started of what percentage of the total population in the audience for that particular show for that particular movie will seem or BE familiar to you.

If you have not had that you ve been an absolute aberration from the norm I tell you - so you are either exceptionally blessed or really cursed; but the statistical studies have proven that more than ninety percent of the times - when you want to go unseen and unheard, you will be spotted by people you know, and talked about and maybe even questioned about at a later date.

Oh yeah, and for all you well-connected-via-cell phone people: remember your mom, dad, granddad, great grandmother and all the likes, will definitely call you in the middle of that one movies, and even if they don't generally ask you , NOW this one question will surely come - 'Who are you with?'

So either make sure you call all your relatives before the movie, or have a very convincing blatant lie ready at all times. And gals, there is a hell of a higher probability of it afflicting you than your guys. Yeah Mr.Murphy also discriminates against the fairer sex.

It all sounds funny and makes a great blog post at a later date - but it's one hell of an experience to go through. And even though this post has been inspired by a friend's recent sojourn in the aforementioned tricky territory . . . . . . am sure all you readers will agree that each of the incidents mentioned are quite inspired by the real life, and any resemblance to any person alive and kicking is so damn intentional.