Popcorn, ice-cream and upside down values
30th May 2005
Dawn at Frugal for life posed an intriguing question regarding the morality of bringing food into movie theaters. My wife is one such individual who insists on making her own pop corn and packing drinks and other snacks for the movies. It hadn’t occured to me that this practice actually contravenes rules set up by movie theaters. Further, I wasn’t aware that the proceeds from the concession stands are allow movie theaters to afford staff salaries since ticket sales do not bring in enough profits.
My initial response was a slight tinge of guilty feelings for robbing my fellow decent and hard-working citizens of their wages. It also occured to me, as one of the commenters pointed out, that the same might go for theme parks. Whenever we visit Disneyland for instance, my wife packs out our lunches and at the right time, we would all take the tram back to our car to have our lunch in the parking lot before returning to the park again. We save a ton of money since I have four kids!
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