Summer Story….

Summer Time woke up and stretched extra hard. She got out of bed, went to the window and pulled back the curtains with a smile.

“What the *#@%!”, she shouted in frustration. The view outside her window was of a slightly soggy Saturday morning.

“This is why I hardly ever visit Seattle! Maybe if I hang out for awhile, the fog will burn off and I can go outside and be warm.” She flopped back on the bed and  looked at the clock.

“I need something to do,” she mumbled. “I know! I’ll go get some movies from that store my friend Moon told me about. Moviecycle in Ballard! She said they have all kinds of cool flicks for real cheap.”

Summer hopped up and assessed herself in the mirror. Spiky gold hair, cupcake pajama bottoms and a Care Bear t-shirt (Sunshine Bear…of course).  She nodded to her reflection in approval and threw on her yellow Converse and Rat City Roller Girls hoodie. Keys in hand, she booked it to Ballard.

The cute little store was  nestled between a gourmet food shop and yoga studio. Darth Vader stared at her through the window as she walked in the open door (pausing for a moment to check out the bin out front…$2.99! Wow!).

The store was funky and covered in tons of movie posters while mellow tunes flowed from the speakers. The clerk smiled and greeted Summer pleasantly, asking if she had any questions.

“I am gonna browse, thanks though!” Summer shared a smile with the friendly clerk.

The new releases caught her eye, all for only $9.99. Book of Eli was supposed to be really good. And that new Michael Cera movie, Youth in Revolt was hilarious according to Moon. Kristen Bell in When In Rome. She is always a cutie. Summer was stoked to see they also had Legion and The Lovely Bones. Two movies she hadn’t caught in the theater. Cool!

Ooooh, speaking of cool. They had a whole wall devoted to cool things! The Wall O’ Cool! 4 Quentin Tarantino movies, 2 Monty Pythons, All About Eve, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fargo. Summer laughed as she discovered they had The Care Bears Movie,  Labyrinth, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Classic kid flicks.

Wow! Look, there’s Death at a Funeral (the cool British version), Donnie Darko, Chasing Amy, American Splendor (didn’t Harvey Pekar just pass away? Paul Giamatti did a decent job playing him.), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Superman, E.T., Knocked Up…..the list of cool titles just kept going.

Summer felt overwhelmed.

Luckily, the clerk helpfully pointed out that she could get three cool movies for only $20! Anything $8 or less and she would be golden.

Summer grabbed The Care Bears Movie, The Darjeeling Limited and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (that one was always her favorite…the scene with the monkey brains just makes her laugh and gag all at the same time…it’s great).

Summer looked longingly at the rest of the store ( “TV shows! Foreign films and stand-up comedy? I will have to come back.”)

The clerk rang her up quickly, checking each disc to make sure they were in good shape. A smile and her change and Summer was out the door headed home to veg out and watch movies until it was time to go outside and shine.

The End

(By the way, you get that she is fictional and we still have those cool movies on the shelf. Just wanted to make sure that was clear…..)