today was the highlight of my week. i went to see jersey girl with shea. i must say that i definitely understand why that theater is now only a dollar. i mean, seriously, they should be paying me a dollar to watch a movie there. i didn't realize how bad it was until today. man, no wonder they're struggling to stay open. they definitely can't compete with great escape. the guy behind the booth selling tickets had a baby with him (i'm not sure, but the last time i checked, most jobs wouldn't let you take your kids). the baby was wearing what looked like a bathing suit with a hula skirt. no, i'm not kidding (although i wish i was). the guy hands us pink tickets that looked like they were for a carnival ride. so we walk in and go to the left to find our theater. looking up to the signs to find where jersey girl was playing, we get the second hint that it's ghetto theater. there 's a white piece of paper taped up with a huge piece of masking tape that had "my baby's daddy" scribbled on it, almost unreadable. we giggle because we realize why we only paid a dollar. we get to the end of the hall and still have no idea where jersey girl is playing. on our way back down the hallway we walk into a couple pitch black theaters, but no sign of a movie getting ready to start. we make our way back to the lobby thinking it's on the other side of the building. nope. not there either. so we're standing in the lobby laughing because we can't find our movie. i mean, how funny is that? we decide to ask the man with the baby when all of a sudden this mother and (i'm assuming) her daughter come strolling in with mcdonalds bags and super sized drinks. can they not read the sign that says "no outside food or drinks?" or do they not understand that it's a movie theater? i mean, there have been times where i take my own candy or even bottled water...but mcdonalds??? so of course, we laugh about that. we hear them ask to have the lights turned on in the theater for jersey girl, so we follow them back down the hallway to the theater we assume is jersey girl. there's about 7 or 8 people standing outside of the theater and i (being the smart one) decide to go ahead in to get a seat. it's so dark i can't see anything. shea's behind me and we're trying to feel our way to a seat. to make it even funnier, she had told me a story her grandma had told her about people putting hiv needles in the seats, so we're trying to feel around in the dark to check our seats. we finally sit down. it's so dark in there and we see people whipping out their flashlights and lighters to try to find a seat. we're cracking up. so we sit there for about 5 minutes and this lady comes in and says "if you're waiting for jersey girl, you're in the wrong theater!" ha. how hillarious. so we all get up and make our way out of the dark theater and into the right one. we sit down, get comfy and during the previews, the screen jumps to half screen, so we're watching the screen not being able to see anyone's head. shea related it to nanny from the muppet babies, which i found quite humorous. anyway, someone fixes it, only to leave and then it goes from full screen to "squished screen," which is what i call it when the people look really skinny and squished. it was like that for about the first 10-15 minutes, which was the whole time j-lo was in the movie, which i also found rather ironic. needless to say, the whole experience only cost one dollar!