Who Wears the Pants Scene 52

Anita found some seats open in the forth row center where she liked to sit in movies. The theatre was almost empty for the first showing of the day. Howard settled back and relaxed in his seat despite his irritation with Anita. He hadnít ever seen the movie but was roughly acquainted with the plot. Big Baby was a satire of the transformation comedies made in the mid-nineties like “Jack”, “Big”, and the still popular classic, “The Nutty Professor”. From what he remembered reading, the storyline was about a mature business man who wishes he was ten years old again only to have his wish backfire and transmogrify him into a one-year-old baby. Considering what had been happening to him over the last seven months, Howard thought Anitaís choice in movie for them to see was in extremely poor taste. When he discovered the Anita had treacherously purchased a child-content ticket for him, he was livid. The adult emotions and sensations had been heavily censored, but the feelings and sensations of being an infant were left fully intact. Howard could swear he could feel himself shrinking in the seat. He anxiously checked the size of his hand again and again to prove to himself that he wasnít turning into an infant on the spot. Anita of course, felt the same sensations that he was feeling plus the adult sensations and inner emotions of the adult side of the protagonist. The movie never seemed to bother her. She smiled in amusement as the protagonist became an infant and laughed at all the appropriate places in the movie, while Howard sat stunned in his seat, wondering if the fictional characterís fate was going to be his own. He could not help but question Anitaís motives to taking him to this movie. Instead of taking his mind off of his problems, Howard knew the movie would give him nightmares for weeks. Howard closed his eyes under the emotion projector’s assault on the integrity of his mind as waves of infantile helplessness washed over him. By the end of the movie, he couldn’t tell how old he was; he could have been sixteen or forty-four or only a year old.