Glad It Wasn't A Double Feature - A Saturday Centus

Well, it’s time once again to chop your babies and make literary magic!  That’s right, it’s time for Saturday Centus, a themed writing meme hosted by Jenny Matlock at her blog, Jenny Matlock ...off on my tangent.... Every Saturday she posts a "prompt," a phrase that must be used in the essays of each contributor.

Each story must contain the prompt as written and be a total of 100 words or less, not including the prompt words. After posting their stories, the writers link up with Jenny's Saturday Centus meme post so that we can all share our treatment on the prompt.

Come on, join the fun!  It's cheaper than therapy and gives you great practice at chopping your babies culling the words in your writing projects.

Here is this week’s prompt, lovingly crafted by that wordsmith himself, Mr. Jenny:

I settled into the comfortable movie theater seat with awkward 3D glasses perched on my nose, a small tub of popcorn on my lap, and a bottle of water lodged into the seat holder,

This is the treatment that I am offering up this week. But I warn you it might make you hungry. I call this:

Glad It Wasn’t A Double Feature

I settled into the comfortable movie theater seat with awkward 3D glasses perched on my nose, a small tub of popcorn on my lap, and a bottle of water lodged into the seat holder, restlessly anticipating the start of the film.

My date, Olivia, was busying herself arranging the feast of edibles she had so lovingly chosen to complement this cinematic experience.

In addition to the extra-large tub of heavily-buttered popcorn, she had ordered eight pepperoni mini-pizzas, six hot dogs, nachos, assorted candy, peanuts, pretzels, ice cream bars, cookies and two large diet Cokes.

At her feet, her backpack held three foot-long meatball sandwiches, four double bacon burgers, five bags of chips, eight pieces of chicken, coleslaw, mashed potatoes with gravy and biscuits.

I hoped the $185 I had spent would pay off afterwards.