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Raise your hand if you enjoy summer. Keep it raised if you enjoy summer nights spent outside when it is cool out. Keep it still raised if you enjoy watching movies with friends. If you have put your hand down you are an imbecile or an Amish person, in which case why are you reading this?

Anyway, when you combine those things into a magical delight that is a drive-in movie theater you get one of my most favorite things to do during the summer. I frequent the Georgetown Drive-In at least two times every summer. It is my Mecca ... except less hot and not religious. There is a drive-in in Louisville, but that theater is not conveniently located near Polly's Freeze (amazing food and ice cream) so I hardly think it counts as a drive-in experience.

Besides being able to enjoy a warm summer night, drive-in movies allow you and your friends to watch a new release and talk through it without being a pain in the ass to those around you. We all know the main rule of a theater experience: no talking (unless someone is about to be murdered in a horror film, then you may yell instructions to said person and ridicule them after they die). When you are outside and everyone has their personal speaker system, you can talk about whatever comes across your vacant mind during the summer blockbusters.

Why is this important? I saw The Hulk (or whatever its title was) at the drive-in. You know ... the one with Eric Bana .. that shitfest. If I had seen that in a theater, I would have walked out and demanded a refund. At the drive-in ... I had a great and magical time. The sarcasm and criticisms started five minutes in and left us in tears from laughter by the time Ang Lee had finished shitting on celluloid. There is no such thing as a bad movie when you are at the drive-in, unless you have no soul.

Bonus story ... in high school, my friends and I decided to go on Thursday night to the opening showing of the end of the Matrix trilogy. That night was scheduled for a pink full moon. So when that disappointment of a movie was reaching hour two ... we were staring at the beautiful moon (LOOK AT THE MOOOON) and excited we had made the drive-in choice. When the moon was finished with its glory, we went back to mocking Keanu Reeves.

In conclusion ... find a drive-in near you and make a night of it. You will not be disappointed. As for me .. I believe that Zohan movie is playing there tonight ... you know I'm down.