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Friday, July 21, 2006

I Found Ten Dollars

No, this colourful bill is not Monopoly money.

With Suz's bro in town, we needed to do something neat-o instead of hanging around watching TV. So we all decided to see Superman Returns at the Super-Mega-UltraPlex.

If you're expecting a review of the movie, sorry. Okay, okay, if you haven't seen Superman Returns yet, here are a couple of tidbits: The CG is extremely good, unlike 99% of all movies that use it. In terms of CG, My biggest qualm was Supes' cape. The glossy CG cape was lameass, and looked practically like leather. Don't expect a big action-packed blockbuster here. The movie is more soap operaish. However, the plane scene: PHE. NOM. E. NAL.

When the show ended at roughly 1 a.m., the herd of moviegoers exited the theatre and poured into the washrooms, which left us at the front of the pack. Right in front of the desolate exit doors I saw a nice purple 10 dollar bill laying on the floor. I picked it up and smiled. "This just paid for my movie ticket," I thought.

The 10 dollar bill has a picture of Sir John A. MacDonald on it. This Scotland-born dude was Canada's very first Prime Minister, from 1867 to 1873. Even through personal tragedy, he worked very hard to build our country. In 1878 he was reelected and served as Prime Minister until 1891. He died, while still in office, June 6, 1891.

I'm glad I found 10 dollars. Sir John A. probably wouldn't approve, but I'm going to spend my 10 dollars on candy. He can't stop me. He's dead.

9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, you promised you weren't going to spend it all on candy and records!
Suz

2:48:00 PM

 
Blogger Martini said...

Nyah!

3:02:00 PM

 
Blogger Louisiana said...

i love that you are a kid at heart. candy, how cute. enjoy.

i have 5 kids as you know. the middle one, 11/boy, is the luckiest person EVER..he has founds $10's,$20's, toonies, loonies, quarters in our presence meor outings with his dad etc... we overlooked them, not see them, not notice them.
but he does, it's like they call out to him...i remember yrs ago halloweening he yelled for me to look at what i was just stepping on, a 20....
he promises me a cushy life in the future. i'm glad, i wasn't counting on the senior's benefit..

it's wonderful to have family around i feel.glad your brother in law is visiting.

we went to see Superman...i loved it...i cannot believe how much he looked like Christopher Reeve...

1:29:00 AM

 
Blogger Ellie Creek Ellis said...

i've never seen any of the superman or spiderman movies...

10 bucks for a ticket? holy smokes! in our little theatre of the late 1800s, it costs 4 bucks to get in 75 cents for popcorn and 50 cents for a pop. you and suz could come here and go to a date, each get a pop and share the popcorn! what'cha think? huh? huh?

5:29:00 PM

 
Blogger Ellie Creek Ellis said...

*of....built in the late 1800s...
*and go out for a date...

i really need to edit before submitting! sor char!

5:31:00 PM

 
Blogger Gary said...

Hey, that ten is one I dropped. Can you send it to me? I can identify it if you need me to. :)

3:44:00 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

hey you use paper money?

4:25:00 AM

 
Blogger Monogram Queen said...

That is too cool! I'm not real lucky finding money. Spend it on good candy! Mmmm.. candy.....

9:29:00 AM

 
Blogger Rainypete said...

They've dropped their prices to $10.00????? Maybe I can afford to see a show or two now. Who am I kidding. It's the drive in or nothin' for me babay!

And you know you'll blow it all on cereal......you're fooling nobody.!

2:59:00 PM

 

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