So before my mission I was searching for a job. After much anguish in looking, I finally ended up at the Century 16 theater in Salt Lake. I thought that this would be an amazing job, getting to set up the movies in the projector room, watching all the free movies I could handle. Needless to say I was way stoked. My first day I don my white button shirt and slacks and prepare myself for a great day. The manager greets me and says “You’re on popcorn today.” Well turns out he meant the ENTIRE day. For eight straight hours I shoveled hot buckets of popcorn and then (ick) layered the butter for our clientele. So the day finishes and I think “Oh well I just went through the hazing process now I’ll get my cushy job.” The next day I show up with hope in my eyes only to have it crushed by the manager saying “You’re on popcorn again!” Holy @#$@ are you kidding me??? Finally after ANOTHER eight hours I went into the manger’s office and said, “You know what, this isn’t for me.” He grunted and said pick up your check next week. Well the last thing that I ever wanted to do was to go back to that forsaken place to pick up a check so I decided to just write it off as my good deed for the next twenty years. I went on my mission and came back and the theater slipped into something that we brought up and dinner and laughed and said, “Remember when you worked there and didn’t get paid?” But I didn’t care.

The other day Bobbo called me saying that I had received an envelope from Cinemark. I asked my mom to open it and IT WAS MY CHECK!!!! $86.85 BABY!!!! Steve 1 Nasty Popcorn Death Trap zero! Booyah. I’m going to scan the sucker and put it up here. You’ll see. Wife and I are pumped! We’re going to go to a movie! But no popcorn.