Personal Narrative: The Movie Theater

As more things around him started spinning out of control, all he could do for the moment was becoming a spectator in his own life. His mother took everything in stride, but his father took every opportunity to keep them all grounded from what he believed were the trappings of the good life. It seemed funny to him that the only person he actually made his effort to insure this remained true was for him and he wanted to end his relationship with Anna. That was always a very short conversation whenever his father would bring out his rigorous stick and start beating the common sense in his unknowing son. Oh, how he would bring up about the large house, all the servants waiting on you hand and foot, the expensive clothes he now wore, …show more content…
Greer, and the four of us were rushed into the TV Room by a gang of laughing and giggling servants. The TV Room would have better been described as a miniature movie theater by the size of it. Of course, when he mentioned it to Anna, she laughed and said the Movie Theater was in a building of its own on the other side of the tennis courts and was an inch by inch a smaller replica of the Lowes Theater in New York. At that point, I found myself counting my shoelaces again and grumbling that I should have known to keep my mouth shut. Anna took my hand and dragged me over to a sixties style dinner’s booth like seat for two that had a small round table in its …show more content…
“I heard my Bosom Bouquet stores in all the other malls have empty shelves once it was reported that it was the only store shut down so the little chick can play dress up. Having her bring all her close personal rich and important girlfriends to her favorite store to pick out a few things for a special party she had invited them to didn't hurt either. Sometimes I'm too smart for my own good,” Joanna giggled, and began shaking her head. “I had each of my stores make a poster of the stuff the little chick picked out for herself and posted them in the front window. The backorders will have my suppliers sucking wind for a month and people are even asking if they could buy the posters. The one hour printing stores in all the malls are closed for a bit to print the posters and scatter them around the mall for sale. The profit is ridiculous. Just make sure the little chick doesn’t do any shopping, during Christmas season or someone is going to get killed.” “Why is it OK for Lucy being a spokes model for the mall, then when I wanted to do it, mother?” Elena asked harshly. “Father thought it was a good idea after I did that spread for your stores and sales went