Mad-Lib:
MOVIE TITLE: Lord of the Ring’s: Return of the King
RELATIVE: Mother-in-Law
RESTAURANT: Bennigan’s
MEAL: Monte Cristo sandwich

One Saturday, Michele and I drove into San Antonio and picked my RELATIVE. We were taking my RELATIVE to see MOVIE TITLE, even though she hadn’t seen the prior movies. The theater was on Loop 410, and the nearest fast casual dining was RESTAURANT. At one point, sitting there beside my wife, eating a MEAL, I remember thinking about how surreal my life was sometimes.

Because MOVIE TITLE was such a big deal, Lilia wanted to see it. My RELATIVE had an adventurous spirit, inside a tiny, well mannered, disciplined persona. She had a wonderful escapist streak that movies and TV helped fill. Because he didn’t drive, the only time she saw something on the big screen was when one of her kids brought her. Her husband, like all husbands of a certain age, by law, was not allowed to remain awake in a movie theater.

I’m pretty sure she said she enjoyed MOVIE TITLE, but I don’t remember any details about that particular showing. Possibly because I had already seen it in the theater, and seen MOVIE TITLE a dozen times or more since. Another reason is that ever since I accidentally took my RELATIVE to see The Forty Year-old Virgin, which I instantly regretted, a few years later, I had to wipe all my memories of taking her to movies.