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Chad Souder
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posted 10-06-2008 01:25 PM

Good for them ol' folks. If getting romantic at a drive-in is wrong, I don't want to be right.

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John Wilson
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posted 10-06-2008 04:23 PM

quote: Barry Floyd
They composed themselves and honestly admitted they were working on their "BUCKET LIST".

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Pravin Ratnam
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posted 11-10-2008 12:31 PM

I think the ages are dropping. A couple of times when I was auditing theaters for ads a couple of years ago, I noticed a couple of young teens(more like middle school than high school) left alone for late shows and they were just done making out.

Then there was this case of one of my handymen who lives in a house for rent with a widow -landlady and her two kids. The 13 year old daughter asks him if she could get Gonnorrhea in the throat because she was giving oral to her friends in the movie theater. Also she complained that her ribs hurt because she was hunched over too long over the seat dividers. Really messed up widow and kids. She lives in a 550K house in suburbia that is deteriorating due to lazy widow's neglect. A lot of shady elements hang out with that lady(drug dealers , hookers). No wonder the daughter is messed up.

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Andrew Bangs
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posted 11-10-2008 11:31 PM

They are getting younger. Just the other day we kicked out a couple kids who were two Buts in one seat and two tungs in one mouth. not only that but they were in the front center seats for every one to see. When we kicked them out we got their names and ages. the girl was 14 and the boy was 16. This is just ridiculous!

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Chris Slycord
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posted 11-11-2008 08:56 AM

quote: Andrew Bangs
They are getting younger.

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the girl was 14 and the boy was 16. This is just ridiculous!

News flash! Kids at that age (and younger!) are going through this thing called puberty. When you said that they are getting younger, I expected you to have kicked someone quite young, but you instead kicked out two people who were doing something quite normal for their age.

Seriously, acting like 14 and 16 are "ridiculously young" to kiss someone of the opposite sex seems to indicate that you're forgetting what it was like when you were those ages.

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Andrew Bangs
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posted 11-12-2008 01:12 PM

Ok perhaps I was a little shy and never had a serious girlfriend till College. but still the few girls I knew and got together with when I was 16 usually did not put out like these kids today. These two were a camera away from starting their own soft porn video. and in front of an entire audience. If any of the girls I knew even thought about making out with someone they would find a back room.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 11-12-2008 08:12 PM

Consider this (in line with what you alluded to):
People in media and the general public will lead us to believe that kids are just having sex all the time and we are much more sexed up than in the past. But in reality, the highest rates of teenage pregnancies ever recorded in the US happened during the 1950s and have been dropping ever since.

And it's been a common thing, ever since movie theaters existed AFAIK (and definitely something I know kids talked about even when I was young), for people to specifically choose the back row of a cinema to make out.

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Andrew Bangs
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posted 11-16-2008 01:11 AM

quote: Chris Slycord
And it's been a common thing, ever since movie theaters existed AFAIK (and definitely something I know kids talked about even when I was young), for people to specifically choose the back row of a cinema to make out.

Frankly that is where we used to look for them. But now, like I said earlier, we are not finding them at the back but down in the front for everyone else in the theatre to see. I also just came by some freaky information how true it is I don't know but our town has one of the highest percentages if not the highest percentage of teen Pregnancies in either the state or country. Like I said I don't know how factual this is but from what I have seen and heard I would believe it.

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