Popcorn Feud.

I was at the movie theater last Saturday watching the movie "The Blind Side." It was a great movie, but as I was coming out of the room, I saw a medium half eaten popcorn in the trash. Seeing this had completely ruined my night. As you all may know, popcorn in movie theaters are VERY expensive. I checked the menu and a medium size popcorn is about $6.75. So basically, the person who threw away half the bag of popcorn has wasted $3.37.

So, what's the big deal? Its just a bag of popcorn right? Now, $3.37 may not be a lot of money for us, but saving this money and food could go a long way sometimes. As you all have heard, The Haiti earthquake has killed thousands of people. When I was walking by ABP, some students were shouting "Help Haiti! A dollar could buy them half a box of Gatorade that you would get at Costco!" So basically, the $3.37 the person who bought the popcorn has wasted could have bought more than 1 big box of 24 Gatorade bottles to help the victims of Haiti.

I know that I am basically just ranting about popcorn, but in reality, things like this happen all the time. I am not saying the person who threw away the popcorn was completely wrong. Maybe the popcorn tasted really bad, or the person who has ate the popcorn felt really sick afterwards. (I had some popcorn of my own and it tasted fine) However, regardless of these reasons, I think people should be wise about what they chose to waste their money on. In third world countries, a lot of people don't even know what popcorn is.

I'm not really addressing only popcorn in this situation. (Although I guess half the blog is about popcorn) but I feel like nowadays a lot of people seem to forget that we are very fortunate when it comes to being able to go to school and have 3 meals a day. Of course, everyone has problems, and I am not trying to preach anyone to do anything, but it would be nice to get this message across, seeing how such terrible tragedies are happening around the world.