At church we organized a family movie night. We advertised for kids to bring their sleeping bags and pillows. We chose Disney's Inside Out at the request of several parents. We popped popcorn for about fifty people. And then 6:00 finally rolled around...
Ta-Da! Nobody! This is just me and my boss. We were laughing pretty hard that zero people would turn up to a family movie night.
Turns out, five families did show up, but they didn't start rolling in until 6:10 to 6:20. All the families had preschool-age kids, so who can blame them for running late around dinner time? The families sat happily with their popcorn for about forty minutes, and then the little ones got restless and started running circles around the fellowship hall, squealing at the top of their lungs. Nobody minded.
There was one little two year old girl who was wearing a hot pink outfit with a pacifier clipped to her shirt who had a little crush on Brian. Brian and I were sitting in the back with the popcorn machine. The little girl was running laps around the room, but whenever she got close to me and Brian, she would lock eyes with him, slow down and twirl her pacifier, giggling. We couldn't not laugh, and she would hurry off embarrassed, and make her way around again.
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