Mike and I have tickets to the whole film noir cycle at the Seattle Art Museum, and we're about halfway through it right now. Last night we went to see The House on Telegraph Hill. After the movie, on our way back to the car, I casually asked Mike if he had noticed that we're (by far) the youngest audience members each week. He said:
"yeah, i think an old folks home drops off a bus of people"
I just started laughing, and reminded him that the movies were made in the 1940's - and that the oldest people we see in the audience were probably just kids when the movies came out, and that a lot of the people we see when we go to SAM each week probably remember watching these movies (or movies like them) when they were kids. It would be like Mike and I getting excited and going to a special showing of '80's movies in a theater when we're elderly.
Then he tells me:
"yeah, but i see them all hanging out together in the lobby before the movie!"
i asked if he was talking about them being all lined up outside the theater (to which he replied that he was), and so i told him that they were probably lined up to buy their tickets. I told him that not everybody bought a ticket for the whole series like we did - and that we get to skip to the head of the line and just go in because of our pass to the whole cycle. I'm still a little confused at how it didn't occur to him that a whole line of people outside of a movie theater were just there buying tickets. How is it that the first thought that came to him about it was that they must have all been friends from the old folks home?
Mike cracks me up!
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