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Mystery Mints of Antiquity
Tue May 25 2004


How's this for a mystery of the universe.

No matter how slowly I think I am eating them, I invariably come to the last Junior Mint. I noticed this for the first time in the darkened theater in my hometown where I bought my first box of the addicting little morsels.

I would sit down with my Junior Mints, determined that I would make them last until at least the middle of the movie. Sometimes I would even close up the box between each mint. I felt so virtuous in my gargantuan self-conrol. Especially since, from some place in my medulla oblongata, there was a message flashing in neon green saying:
OPEN BOX. OPEN MOUTH. POUR ALL MINTS INTO MOUTH. CHEW. SWALLOW. DO IT NOW !

But no matter how slowly I ate them, by the time Doris Day had finally decided she really DID love James Garner, but had completely alienated him, and needed to convince him she had been an idiot, the Junior Mint box would have run dry. So I had to watch the agonizing remainder of the movie mintless.

It's still the same today. My mints never last as long as I want them to. I guess some natural laws remain constant.

5 Comments
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 26 2004
    Next time you go to the movies, take me with you. Then, when you run out of Junior Mints, you can work a deal to trade for mine. I never developed a taste for most mints (to my mind they're like eating toothpaste) so I will gladly exchange them for, say, a box of malted milk balls.
  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 26 2004
    I blame the cinema going mint gremlins. I hooted with laughter at your words on the medulla oblongata I do that too!

    Hugs
    Rach xx
  • From:
    Monstergue (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 26 2004
    I remember my first encounter with Junior Mints. I was at the theatre with my mom watching 'Close Encounters'. I am not sure if I was more charmed by the movie or the mints.

    In some respects they remind me of nuts or the old ads for Lay's Potato Chips. You can't eat just one.
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 27 2004
    I don't even know what Junior Mints are. Probably a good thing by the sound of it. ;-)
  • From:
    Enchantedbutterfly (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat May 29 2004
    I think the only possible solution to your ordeal is to buy at least 5 boxes of Jr. Mints before the movie starts, or smuggle some in your purse before you enter the theater. Of course the repercussions of said action (if you go to the movies a lot) is that you will gain a very large backside. Which would you rather be? Fat and Happy or mintless?

    Butterfly