Life Sentence

While I'm at it, why is it that every time I go to the movies here, there is a drunk guy sitting nearby talking too loudly to his date who I'm sure doesn't want to be there with him but went anyway because it was a situation in which she needn't make idle chatter but instead can think of ways to breakup with him but doesn't quite know how because Osan is so small that she knows that she will see him everywhere and that would be uncomfortable so she agrees to go to the movies to escape her humdrum world at least for 90 minutes of peace and quiet only to have him blathering on about God-knows-what too loudly that she'd want to slink away to the concession stand and bury her head in a pile of freshly-popped popcorn and drizzle herself with butter in order to feel better about a life that is not as good as she thought it would be when she was a teenager considering the Air Force as a career, a career that the recruiting commercials lied to her about since there is not upside-down flying pilots in her life, but rather there is just this guy, this annoying fellow who seems to think that Friday Happy Hour is the highlight of his week because the club serves one-dollar drinks and the waitress there is cute and he thinks she likes him and that his girlfriend doesn't know, but she knows more than she lets on and she thinks about this listening to his beer breath talk about ridiculous comments in the opening credits, she thinks of these things and more and she feels sorry for herself, for him, and for her parents who are telling their friends how proud they are of her daughter who was able to leave the small town and see the world, but the only world that she is seeing is the 27 square miles of Osan Air Base, and more specifically her dorm room which is 10 meters squared and she shares that with a roommate who snores yet she ignores this as well and feels a wave a sadness when she thinks of her mother crying when she left last summer mainly because she lives another life today inside of a movie theater?