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Maybe I more meant "Worst movie experience of all time"?
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Well then, that's
easy:
Me: 8 years old, at the Drive - In theater with the parents.
Earlier that day, they had bought me a balsa wood airplane {anyone remember those?} which I had with me in the backseat.
At some point during the movie {Moonraker} I must have accidentally dropped my airplane into my popcorn without realizing it.
AS I went to eat some more of that up - until - then delicious popcorn, there was a TASTE , a very, very bad taste that I immediately in my 8 year old brain assumed was
poison!
{maybe the premise of the movie being a plot to poison everyone on Earth while the perpetrators hid safely up in orbit had something to do with it?}
I threw a
Royal fit, spitting and sputtering and screaming at my parents that I was probably going to die {just like the people in the movie!} from the terrible whateveritwas on my popcorn.
They, of course, knew it probably wasn't poison and after pointing out that it was the balsa wood of my airplane proceeded to give me heck for having overreacted.
{In my own defense I must say that there were a lot of child - killers running around back then, most notably the 'Beast of B.C.' Clifford Olson - which they warned us kids about in school, by the way, so there was some cause for paranoia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Olson
Besides that, balsa wood tastes
awful and could easily be mistaken for poison to someone who did not know}