(Disclaimer for those who don't like urine ingestion; you may want to skip this story, but there is a mystery solved at the very end.)
A few months ago, my girlfriend, Gina and I went to dinner at a steak house adjacent to the mall. Our plan for the evening was to hop over to the movie theater at the mall after dinner to see the movie, "Top Gun Maverick." Our timing, on a week night, turned out to be perfect and we ended up seated five minutes before the start of the movie.
Since we had just had dinner, we didn't get any popcorn or snacks, and since we knew it would be a long movie, we did not get anything to drink. We didn't want to have to jump up before the end of the movie to rush to the restroom.
When the movie ended, Gina stood up quickly and whispered loudly to me, "Let's go; I gotta pee really bad!"
We rushed out of the theater and down the hall to the restroom area. I waited outside while Gina went into the women's restroom, but she came back out almost immediately.
"Damn! It's packed and there's a long line," she said, nervously walking around.
"We're only about fifteen minutes from home; can you hold it that long?" I asked.
"No, but I've got an idea; follow me."
She walked back to the theater we had just abandoned and we went inside. She looked around and when she didn't see anybody still in there, she led me back up the stairs to the top level where we had been sitting.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Nobody checks these theaters until the end of the day and the next showing of this movie won't be for another twenty or thirty minutes."