So I'm in Best Buy at the checkout paying for a Blu-ray version of "The Birds" and the cashier mentions that she just purchased it and "Psycho" recently and couldn't wait to get home to watch it. So I ask if she's ever seen it before and she says "no" and I just about screamed: How could you have never seen The Birds??? But before I do, I realize that she's a teenager and in this century where they just don't make movies like they used to, how could I possibly have expected that she had seen it and I want to scold her parents for never insisting that she sit down and watch it because surely they've seen it (I hope), but instead I should encourage her to run straight home and put it on her TV or computer or cell phone or whatever kids watch movies on these days. Before departing I mention that I've seen it several times in my lifetime which gets me a strange glance in reply. Like why on earth would someone watch a movie more than once?
So it's eight hours later now as I type this and hopefully she's followed through with her stated intent and she's just as frightened as I was the first time. It's the freaking The Birds after all. A classic, must see movie.

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