So... expensive...

For my birthday (which was in October) I had wanted to go to the movie theatre. I know it's expensive (It's pretty much expensive everywhere in the world, I'd imagine) and that the food is over priced, but I really wanted to go.

I guess it's the overall experience that I pay for. Plus in Japan you have designated seats so you know ahead of time if there's enough for everyone in the space. I like the surround sound, the dark room, the big screen and I can convince myself that eating popcorn and drinking soda just this once is not going to turn me into the next contender in the heaviest person in the world contest. (Although I use that just this once excuse way, way, way too many times........)

I wasn't alone, of course. I like sharing experiences like that so I brought along my husband even though he was reluctant. (He usually is for any sort of social thing. I think sometimes that if it weren't for me he might have turned into a hermit. A vampire hermit...) At the end of the movie he admitted that it was "Ehh" which translates to "I like that enough to see it again one day". Who needs to learn English when you can communicate using just sounds, right?

Now I used to work for a movie theatre company, and when I worked there the price for one adult was $9.90 (Marketing tricks, eh? It's not $10, it's only $9.90) Although that might have changed by now. But when we went to the counter to pay for our tickets the number that appeared on the register was 4680 (Yen) which roughly ends up being $50.... That's $30 per person. That's like a whole dinner and not just a regular dinner but one of those fancy ones with the four course meal or whatever.

After snacks and popcorn and whatever else he wanted (Being a guy he had to have some sort of meat thing. This ended up being a hot dog - this time.) the total now was at 7450 (About $80).

Eighty dollars to see one movie!

I'd say that I'd pass on doing that again but I probably won't.

Cause I like it...

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