Drive-In Etiquette

It's a new month, so I figure I should get back to blogging a little bit more. I've been pretty lazy lately.

In the most recent issue of Sunset magazine (which I love!) they recommended that you take a trip to the drive-in here in Las Vegas. I just have to disagree on this one.

One Friday night, we decided that we should go to the drive-in. It was hot out, but we figured that sitting outside in the breeze wouldn't be so bad. We went really early (last time we tried to go, there was such a traffic jam that we missed the first 20 minutes of the movie, and just left by the time we got to the payment stand,) parked our car, and walked over to a casino for dinner.

When we came back to the drive-in, there were several cars parked right near us. It seemed like there were about two adults and twenty children, ranging from 6 months old to 17 years old. The kids were yelling and running around. We thought maybe we were at the wrong screen because the movies were "Ocean's 13" and "1408." Why would a bunch of little kids be watching those movies? Especially when the younger kids kept yelling out, "Ratatouille!!" When the movie started, they realized that they were at the wrong screen. The kids were all yelling and pointing at another screen, and the adults packed up the car so that they could get to the right movie. It was only a minor fifteen minute disturbance.

We had about 10 minutes of a pleasant, quiet movie, with a nice breeze, when up drove a huge red SUV. First the SUV decided to leave its lights on for a good 10 minutes. It only resulted in a slight glare to the screen. Then the SUV refused to turn off. Apparently they wanted the air conditioning or something. However, this blasted me with hot exhaust air, rather than the cool breeze I had been enjoying. Am I completely crazy, or is it customary to shut your car off at the drive-in? After 20 minutes of sweltering heat and exhaust fumes, we carefully rolled our own car foward out of the SUV heat blast radius. The movie was much more enjoyable after that.

I still don't think I'd venture down there again though. Just not my type of crowd, I guess.