So I can no longer say I haven't seen "The Sound of Music." At our hostel in Salzburg, Austria, they played it every night at 8. I stayed away the first two nights, but on the third, Derek was with us and it was always on when he was a kid because of his older sister (much like "Little House on the Prairie," Athena!). So when we came back from the Chinese buffet (quite a deal after a day of no food in the ice caves... that's right... ice caves) at 8:15, we wandered over to where the movie was played and sat near the front.
We didn't mock it exactly, but we managed to make inappropriate comments fairly regularly (it's hard not to... that's what she said). So I sat for 3 hours, watching Julie Andrews prance around Salzburg, singing songs that were vaguely familiar with children who apparently learned to sing in all of 2 minutes and a man who looked a lot like Kevin Klien. Then we returned other people's beer steins to the reception and collected the deposit they had paid. I made €2 just for picking up empty glasses after the movie. See, in Germany and Austria, they charge a deposit for drinks since you can walk anywhere with them (it's like Vegas). At the hostel, it was 30 cents, and a lot of the old people there (and there were a lot) didn't know or care that they could get a refund. I knew. And I cared.
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so, did you return all the glasses and pocket the money? thats what the guy did in "the terminal." he did it with carts at the airport and then went to burger king.
cool story!!
I'll have you know that the epic story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as seen in the family frienldy series is highly under rated. And maybe Derek's sister just liked The Sound of Music.
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