This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”
When we had Moonlight: Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight
My favorite in recent memory, though: “The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”
Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?
Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.
I still maintain that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the worst movie title ever. I don’t think anyone ever got that right. And then people mixed it up with The Grand Budapest Hotel. (I work in retail not at a cinema)
something useful my therapist told me: our brains have a bias toward negative thoughts, because our brains aren’t wired to be happy; they’re wired to keep us alive.
from an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense. our brains need us to remember negative events, so we don’t repeat the experience. in cases of mental illness, those thoughts can take over, and that’s a problem, but even NT people have a naturally negative slant to their thoughts. at one point in human evolution, this was probably more helpful than it is now.
for me this was like, really, really helpful. i used to buy into the idea that you always have to be happy, or else something is wrong with you. i thought there was something inherently wrong with me for having negative thoughts.
to hear my therapist say, “nah, that’s normal” was so refreshing. like, okay, my brain’s just trying its best. and once i recognize that, i can address those negative thoughts, and decide whether i want to hang on to them or not.
While cleaning out my room I found a paper that my therapist gave me some time ago to deal with obsessive and intrusive thoughts. Sorry the paper is a little crinkled and stained, but I figured I’d post it in hopes that it will help someone like it helped me.
