26.5.10

I can remember seeing this movie in cinemas with my parents. I can remember being so into it that, mid-screening I stood up and started fencing with my chair, in the cinema. Parrying and thrusting with an imaginary sword against my arch nemesis: cinema chair.
I remember thinking that because it was dark no one could see me. I vividly remember my mother quietly averting my father's attention from the screen and onto me.
"Don't look now darling, but our son thinks he's a musketeer. This kid is a joke"
Is what I imagine she said at the time.
Although both tried to be discrete, I noticed immediately that they had both started to watch me. At which point I sat down and pretended nothing had happened. To this day, I'm still embarrassed about it.

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