Twice an usher walked up and down the aisles and didn't say a word to us. Surely we were going to be caught red-handed. The theater emptied out, and we were the only ones left. We took our seats and watched the credits roll. Our plan upset me, but I felt caught up in it and unable to say no to my dad. I've always been an anxious person and a do-gooder to a fault. I remember being very anxious over the whole affair. We would enter the film as it ended and then sit there until the next showing started up. My dad took us to the bathroom and outlined his plan.
I was certainly game for broadening my horizons. I just knew it looked grown-up and was Kurt Russell and dogs-who-ate-spaghetti-together free. Now I can't recall knowing anything about the film. After all, the movie he wanted to sneak into was Star Wars. My mother and sister decided to shop instead of going along with his criminal act, but I stayed by his side. He wanted to sneak into the next showing of another movie so he could feel redeemed. We had just emerged from watching Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, a horrible film as far as humanistic Volkswagens go, and my dad felt like he hadn't gotten his money's worth.
When we did, it was for what seemed like a boatload of fluffy Disney movies featuring Kurt Russell or innocuous animated films. It was my dad's fault.īack in the seventies, our family of four didn't go to the movies very often. I didn't decide to take the criminal path. Get your FREE Starter Library (three completely free full-length novels) STAR WARS CONFESSION 2: THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS USHERED IN MY VERY SHORT-LIVED LIFE OF CRIME Posted on December 29, 2015
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