CHEAP DATE

tuesday nights are date night. why tuesday? two words... FREE MOVIES. that's right. my mom comes every tuesday and bc3 and i get to traipse around the neighborhood like we're a young couple in love. tuesday nights are for free movies (thanks to our over priced cable/internet/phone company) but what happens when there isn't anything good playing? there are three scenarios and they are the following:

1) we go to dinner. we do not go to dinner unless we have a coupon. yes, i said it, a coupon. in this bad economy, we can't go around like swells spending our money all willy nilly on cigars, scotch, steaks, and champagne... unless you've got a 25% off coupon for said indulgences. (we also usually don't go around pretending we're gangsters from the 1940's either, so....) anway, i scan the mail for my val-pak, check out the deals in the penny saver, and cruise restaurant.com for $2 certificate specials. we do alot of eating with the over 60 set.. that's when the good deals are to be had...before 6pm.

2) date night also happens in the supermarket, mall (and subsequently the mall food court) or anywhere we might need to run an errand... it's happened at costco, too. yes, i know you're saying, "LAME!" but if you don't have multiple children, you have no idea how freaking awesome it feels to go run any errand without the whining, pleading, begging, screaming and carrying on. bc3 and i just skip and stroll down the aisles, holding hands, reminiscing about the days of old when we could buy meat and dairy products completely unencumbered. there are no impending meltdowns, no tearing open of boxes of cookies, as yet unpaid for, as bribes for silence.

3) we go to see a bad movie. because after all, it's still free.. tonight was one of those nights. now, it was actually better than i thought it was, considering all the bad word of mouth it's gotten, so i was happily surprised. we saw that chick lit, chick flick HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU. saying the title gives me the douche chills. (does anyone think that the scrawny apple guy is just not leading man material yet??) it has also been out for quite a while so it was playing in the worst theater in the theater. the one with the faulty a/c... the one that smells like a foot that's been in a sneaker without a sock for the whole day. the one where they don't turn off the lights fully when the movie starts, because they've actually forgotten that you're there. the one with the screen so small that it's possibly better to just wait till the dvd comes out and you can watch it on your flat screen at home. the theater where you are left for dead, all the theater patrons could go feral, beat each other unconscious with the seat cushions and no one would find you for days because they just don't know you're there. you know that theater... you've been there. probably on a cheap date night.. just like mine tonight.

VIVA LA DATE NIGHT!!!