milestones

I'm pretty significantly overweight as an adult, but for most of my life I've been much smaller and lighter than my peers. Until late in high school, I was just generally a scrawny little kid. As a result, my childhood archnemesis was movie theatre seats. You know, the ones that fold up when no one is in them? Those. Unless I sat on the very edge and had the advantage of leverage, it was a long fucking time before I could sit in one without it folding up on me. Which, being me, I almost never remembered would happen and so every trip to the movies saw me helplessly squished into the folded-up seat like Wile E Coyote. Sometimes more than once. It was a great moment of triumph in my life when I realized I could finally sit like a normal person without ending up human origami.

Of course, that was still in the days before movie theatres with 'stadium seating' were commonplace so it didn't matter because I was still too short to see over the people in front of me.