Another one of our regular
family car rides was to visit cousins living near Chicago.
As a drive-through Pennsylvania
on Route 80 we would find that once we passed the mountains he was frequently
nothing but cornfields for hours on end.
These cornfields would occasionally be broken by small towns and the
perpetual construction that seemed to be going on route 80. it only seemed that
they would start construction at the east end of Route 80 in Pennsylvania
and continued until they hit the border with Ohio and then they would just start again
from eastern end all over again. It got so bad that we would joke that it was
the “Law of Conservation of Construction.”
On one of the trips my cousin
convinced several of us to go to a showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,”
having never seen it my brother and I agreed. Then we found out a number of
things we had never expected. First was the trip to the supermarket for toilet
paper and rice, but because they were out of small bags of rice my cousin
picked up a packet of instant chicken and rice soup. Then we went to the
theater, where it appears that my cousin used to be one of the people performing
in front of the screen during showings of the movie.
Without telling the rest of
us, during the performance, she and my brother proceeded to throw the chicken
and rice soup powder into the hair of the guys in front of us. They then
proceeded to fill an empty popcorn bucket with water and toss it onto them.
Through out the movie they taunted and tricked these guys to the point that
when we left the theater the group of us had to run to avoid getting into a
fight.
