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Short Story - Silent Ticket

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Heading out with your friends to catch a movie is one of the joyful moments you can savor with friends when you go out. Movie theaters seem to have a very merry environment from in the inside but the outside is where the circumstances all change. Near the ticket booth, here you can see all the type of people that visit the theater, ages from young children to seniors. Sitting near the ticket booth, you could see the lines of black tape that lead up to it where you see all the people patiently waiting to buy their tickets and the box office cashier who sell the tickets to the civilians that walk up to their little zone. Around this certain ticket booth starts this phenomenon of how to talk to the ticket booth cashier and how, “non-social,” some people seem and the people that break that direction of the norm when attending to the ticket booth. The theater is the place where most people come to watch movies and they mostly buy their tickets around late at night usually varying from 5PM to 12PM. At these times the most people are trying to enter the cinema. They all need to stop by the ticket booth first. Depending on the time it varied from the amount of people and what they all had in common. When a man walked up to the ticket booth when there wasn’t so much people, you could see how he was very shady, lonely and some what middle aged man, most the people who came before those times where usually by themselves, they almost all had very dim personalities when talking to the ticket cashier, they said the movie they wanted to watch and payed it without speaking another word and you could tell how sweaty his hands were from the heat outside. Every second he had them free he seemed to rub them together as if he had just committed a crime and was hoping no one saw him do it. I saw him slowly walk away from the ticket booth as a new man came up to buy his ticket, unlike the usual person who visits Cinemas, this young man was more open it seemed as someone who would say, “Hello,” to a random stranger on the street and he fulfilled those expectations, the second the young man walked up to the ticket booth he said, “Hey, can I get two adult tickets for Expendables 3!” The box office cashier slowly nodded his head saying the price and looking around as like the person in front of him was out of the ordinary but he quickly realized it was real and went back to his work of handing the tickets. The young man noticed how he was feeling uncomfortable and asked the box office cashier how his day was and the second he said those words, the man behind him waiting in line leaned to the side to see almost why he asked that question like it wasn't from the norm, I could predict the man waiting in line just wanted to get his ticket and was annoyed by the fact the young man in front of him was asking personal questions instead of getting his ticket and leaving. The cash

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