purse rule

description!

panel 1: a woman holding a large purse sweats nervously while buying a cinema ticket for a film "whispers & explosions". there's a large sign above the teller that says "NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR BEVERAGE"

panel 2: the woman sits down in the cinema with two friends, cackling "hehehehe". all three women are grinning diabolically, looking at the woman's purse.

panel 3: the woman's friends are now wielding spoons aloft, while the woman's purse is opened, revealing it to be full to the brim with steaming hot soup. everyone leans over the soup, chanting "PURSE SOUP! PURSE SOUP!"

Gremlin humor, i love it

At the movies with my GF. And, for the first time, her family.

The lights come down. The film is underway. There's a commotion at the other end of our row. GF's sister has retrieved something from her bag. There are whispers. Something crinkly is passed down the row, one person at a time, to the left. Eventually, GF hands me a bundle the size of a football. It's aluminum foil on the outside. Wax paper inside, loosely wrapping up ... something. "What is this?" I ask, panicking.

"Pumpkin roll?" she says. Indignant eye-roll tone. As if she meant to say "Uh, helLO, it's a PUMPkin roll, OBVIOUSLY." She's suddenly realized that I'm some kind of bumpkin what ain't never been to no big-suburb movie theater like this before. Where entire family-size bake-sale pastries are always surreptitiously circulating in the dark.

We've been married 20 years now. When she's mixed-up by some momentary contextual confusion, I am still likely to tease her by 'explaining:' "PUMPkin roll?"

I don't remember if I ate any of it.

We brought chicken biryani to the movie theatre once. It was great.

our local movie theater before it shut down had a candy shop open right next to it as part of the mini-mall. It was funny to watch people park, walk into the candy shop, and then go directly into the theater

For some odd reason my mom would sneak me and my siblings in with taco bell. Like a bag of fucking crunchy tacos, the loudest food possible. Multiple times.

I've used that logic later in life to justify if I got away with that, there ain't much worse I'm going to get caught with. People that get nervous about sneaking in food really don't realize the lack of shits an underpaid teenager gives about you.

One time I had a couple of water bottles in my pockets, covered by the hoodie tied around my waist, but the hoodie slipped off right as I approached the guy with my ticket. He gave me a withering glare as if to say “Are you serious with that?”, but let me through without comment.

A friend of mine and I used to get take out from a local Chinese restaurant, then go see a movie at the theater next door and eat our food. I don't recall how we would get it in, but we never had a problem.

Okay, but is soup a food or a beverage?

in my local movie theater they allow food that is purchased there and similar foods. so i can literally just walk in holding a bag of chips and a bottle of soda and they do nothing about it

"Ew, is that a tampon?"

I remember being a kid and they were so on our asses at the local neighborhood place, we would literally tape cans of soda and candy to our legs under our jeans and whatnot

But is soup a food or beverage?