On the corner of Ramona and Mission in Montclair, Calif. lies a gem with all its cinematic glory often overlooked: the Mission Tiki Drive-In Theater. The drive-in is a bit cliché, but a cliché that not more than ten of you reading this have used. Here are a few fiscal reasons to attend said drive-in.
You are normally going to pay $10.50 a ticket at a movie theater chain. This means if you take a date to the movies, you are already at $21 just for entering. The drive-in cost is a mere $7 a person for admission.
At the drive-in you get to see two movies. This means getting twice the entertainment value for less of the cost.
Back to the cold fact of goobers and a Coke. Now, the most perfect thing about the drive-in is that you can bring in your own food and are not confined to the fascist selections at the concession counter, meaning you could very well win some points to carry you to at least the third date.
Now you have covered the money issue. Now onto the physical component of the date. Here are those advantages.
This first one is that there is no fight for that island they call the armrest. If you have a normal car, then you will be afforded the luxury of having two cup holders. But what about the friendly physical test of fighting over that sad piece of plastic acting as the Berlin Wall?
Even if you moved onto that island on top of her hand you still need to worry about how she feels about holding hands in public. That is your most minor of problems. Your larger problem is that you’re an adult at this point, and making out in a movie theater is against any and every set of rules.
But the loophole is that it is your car and you have the sweet sanctuary of home field advantage. You know how to put the seats back. You basically get placed back to that joy of freedom when you got dropped off to go to the mall with the girl all alone with your parents’ money simply hoping to just get to first base. And with that memory, who could ask for a better Valentine’s Day.
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