Celebrating the anniversary with a porno
For our anniversary last night Lee and I did what we do every year. Not that, pervert. We went to dinner and a movie. And like every other year it didn’t go quite as planned. It wasn’t bad. Just not exactly how I envisioned it in my head.
I was craving steak so we headed to Texas Roadhouse. We had to pick Justis up from driver’s ed at 7pm so we didn’t make it out for dinner until almost 8pm. I thought at 8pm there wouldn’t be a very long wait. After all we live in the Heartland. Aren’t people in the Heartland supposed to eat at 5pm?
Well apparently not many people got the “eat at 5pm” memo because there was a 65 to 75 minute wait. The move didn’t start until 9:40 or 9:50 (we hadn’t fully committed to a movie yet) so we did have two hours. But I was worried when they said 65 to 75 minutes they really meant 90 minutes and we’d end up having to snarf down our food without really getting to taste it just so we’d make it to the movie on time.
So we left to go in search of another restaurant with a shorter wait. We figured if everywhere else had an hour wait too we could just come back to Texas Roadhouse and wait it out.
We decided to head over to Ruby Tuesday. Since the fiasco that was last year’s anniversary dinner, Ruby Tuesday apologized and gave us a gift certificate. We had returned for lunch a while back and were pretty satisfied with it. We didn’t have to wait at all. We got a table right away.
Looking at the menu was a little disappointing. I didn’t want Sirloin and that was about the only steak they had. I had my heart set on a filet mignon, but I would have settled for a New York Strip. However, Ruby Tuesday had neither. So instead I got some broccoli and chicken pasta. Lee got some pasta meal too. And both were rather dry. Ruby Tuesday is pretty skimpy with the sauce. It wasn’t terrible, but it was no Texas Roadhouse. [My mouth is watering right now at the thought of the little biscuits with cinnamon butter that I totally missed out on.]
After dinner (and a quick trip to Target to kill some time) we headed over to the movie theater. I wanted to see Changeling, but Lee wasn’t too thrilled about it. So instead we decided on funny. We were debating between Role Models and Zach and Miri Make a Porno. In the end we decided it was our anniversary so we should watch something romantic. Which, of course, means we chose Zach and Miri Make a Porno.
Lee bought the tickets and couldn’t remember the name of the movie. He was stumbling over himself like a 16-year-old boy who was trying to get in to an actual porno. He said, “I’ll take two tickets to Frank and Marie.” Thankfully the teenage girl behind the counter knew what he was talking about and put him out of his misery by just handing him the tickets.
We got our popcorn and drinks and nestled in for the movie. Apparently my definition of “please add butter” and the spaced-out teenager at the concession stand’s definition are two completely different things. Lee swears there was butter at the bottom of the bag, but I never found it. We definitely didn’t need the two inch thick stack of napkins I yanked from the napkin dispenser.
But, to my surprise, the movie was pretty good. Definitely not for children (as if you’d take your kids to a movie with “porno” in the title). There was strong language, some nudity and lots of sexual situations (like duh). But it was hilarious. I literally laughed out loud in a few spots and I rarely laugh out loud in a movie theater. (Yes, I know. I’m a total stuffed shirt.) It was fun to just sit back and laugh.
So even though it wasn’t as planned, the anniversary date was a big success.
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