The boys and I took Nana to see Big Hero 6 the other day (great movie, by the way). As we were waiting in line to buy tickets, my oldest son announced he was going to buy himself some popcorn.<\/p>\n
“Did you bring your money?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“Yep.”<\/p>\n
“Cool.” I looked at his younger brother. “How about you?”<\/p>\n
“Nope. I don’t need money.” He produced a bag of Halloween candy from one of his pockets. “I’m smuggling it in.”<\/p>\n
I typically get the kid popcorn trays ($5 for a reasonable amount of popcorn, a small soda, and a little packet of candy) for everyone, but since the kids were all set and Nana didn’t want anything, I just ordered one for myself.<\/p>\n
“I’ll have a medium popcorn,” my son said when it was his turn.<\/p>\n
“Wait,” I said. “Are you sure you want a medium?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. A large would be way too big.”<\/p>\n
“So’s a medium!”<\/p>\n
He ignored me. “Medium, please.”<\/p>\n
The cashier glanced at me and I gave him the it’s-his-money shrug. He told the popcorn guy, and in very little time, they were handing my son a medium popcorn.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if you’ve been to a movie theater recently, but the popcorn sizes are ridiculous. In this case, a medium was seven dollars, and the bag was at least a foot and a half deep. My son had bought a quantity of popcorn that was actually larger than his head.<\/p>\n
He tried to look nonchalant as they handed it to him.<\/p>\n
His little brother’s eyes grew huge. “You’re gonna share, right?”<\/p>\n
“Nah. I got this.”<\/p>\n
“You’re going to finish it all?” Nana asked.<\/p>\n
“Sure.”<\/p>\n
He worked on it the whole movie, and into the credits. By the time we were walking out of the theater, there were just a few bits of popcorn left for him to throw out.<\/p>\n
“Got room for pizza?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“Sure,” he said, deadpan. “Why not?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve got to admit that he’s got the right attitude. If you’re going to buy something, you might as well enjoy it to the fullest. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DpYi-medium","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}