Movie night with the kids: Nicoli's rebellion.

Originally posted June 27th 2008 


Wall-E starts interestingly. The mid parts are good. After the that it gets sorta fuzzy though. Nicoli got restless, more than he was at the beginning of the film at least, and I spent the remainder of the evening in lobby, glaring getting glared at by others who didn't grok the boy. 

In the arcade one thickie tried to get Nick's attention by screaming 'Hey!', 'Hey you!', 'I'm talking at you!' at him a lot. The kid finally grabbed my son by the shoulder and spun him around. If the encroacher had been more than 8 years old I would have laid into him about personal space, and manners, and how he hadn't any. But since he wasn't; I removed his hand and explained, calmly I thought, that Nicoli didn't know how to answer him because he couldn't talk. The kids stared at me disbelieving for some while and then, mouth as agape as Kory Haim he went on loudly about how that was impossible it was that some one didn't know how to talk until his abashed mother collected him a few minutes later. 

Beyond some conspiratorial whispers from the freshly pimpled clerks, some strange looks from underage yet tattooed gangbangers, and a 'manager', wearing a suit that was too broad in the shoulders for him who thought better of talking to me after he made eye-contact; we remained basically unmolested for the rest of our visit to the local cinema. If that boy in a suit had opened his poxed pie hole I fear I would not have been able to restrain my self from causing an unpleasant scene. 

Nicoli enjoyed his birthday trip even if he didn't really get to watch the movie. Fingering the metal grates over the lighted backs of the motorcycles in the arcade proved to be the eighth wonder of the Coley world. Right up there with the ball pit at a Chuck E Cheese. Genevieve showed some interest in the Dance Dance Revolution Machine. Hoping from arrow to arrow, and generally entertaining herself quietly while Coley screamed. It was 'Happy Screaming', but it's still screaming. And most people couldn't handle that. 

Ziggy and Zack; thanks for getting us out of the house. Sorry about being absent during the movie and for the Coley - escape attempts. It's okay if you don't ever want to do that again. 

It should be noted that Quinn was a perfect gapped-toothed angel through it all even though this was only his second time in a movie theater.