Yasu and i had a date to go to the movies tonight. He came home at about 6:30 pm and i made steak sandwiches for dinner, and i baked a few chips in the oven to go with them. It was yummy! And much better than fast food.
At about 8 pm Yasu told me he didn’t want to go to the movies anymore. As i had been looking forward to it all day, and because he urged me to, i went by myself. He gave me a lift there.
There were only about 8 other people in the cinema, all of them couples, so i felt really odd. I sometimes go to the movies by myself, but that’s my choice, not because someone cancelled.
The movie, Yes Man, had Jim Carrey in it, he’s one of my favourite actors and i had a few belly laughs which was good for me.
Yasu came and picked me up and on the way home he mentioned he’d been on the internet the whole time i’d been at the movies. It was hurtful to me because the way i see it is, the computer has a screen, and watching that screen and typing takes about the same amount of effort as watching a movie, but you get yummy snacks and it’s airconditioned, unlike our house.
Yasu asked me what was wrong because he could sense something. I told him there was nothing wrong. He had conveniently turned off the internet and computer before he came to pick me up and expected me to go straight to bed with him (to sleep), when i got home. He got angry because i said i was going to stay up. Then he got angrier when i wouldn’t tell him why i was upset because i knew he would get angry about that, considering how much he’s been working lately.
In the end i sat down and told him why i was mad, when he made the revelation that he couldn’t understand what they were talking about in the movie. Every time in the past when we went to a movie he said he enjoyed it, he never said he hadn’t understood it!
I told him i’m not a mind reader. All this time we’ve been going to the movies and he’s just said it was a good movie, and never understood much of it. I feel more awful than before because he never said anything. He didn’t want to make me feel bad. But now i feel worse!
I feel worse because i should have noticed! But his English is quite good, and i never for a moment suspected he couldn’t understand it.
Looks like we both got our wires crossed. Despite our mix-up, i’m glad i went to see the movie.
