Electric Cine-mom

Electric Cinem-mom
Today I had one of the weirdest experiences of my life (and this is coming from someone who’s attended Cato Kailin’s birthday party and met her gay sugardaddy while crashing the Golden Globes…). The baby and I went to the movies at ‘Electric Scream’. Every Monday, the Electric Cinema on Portobello Rd. has a three o’clock show for mommies and babies. Now, watching a movie in English with English subtitles to cover the screams emitted by the audience wasn’t too weird (in fact, it's trick I do at home), although watching it in an old fashioned theatre with a bar and trying to get one’s stroller which was somewhere deep in what was a makeshift buggieparking lot-that was weird. But the true weirdness started when as I walked toward the theatre, noticing that I was tailing…what was at first sight a few strollers and then grew into a large throng of strollers and then looking behind me and seeing there was a million mom march going on behind me!!! THAT WAS WEIRD! If you haven’t experienced this and you have a child, I would very much advise that you try it…if only for the surreal and fellini-esque quality of the experience.

It was like being in one of those Armageddon/zombie films where all of the zombies are taking over the streets marching towards civilization. Portobello Rd., which on weekends is full of tourists, was almost completely empty aside from the mom parade! Not only behind me, but once inside the long line at the ticket office and the usher offering to park your strollers in the back area that had obviously been evacuated in order to be filled like an underground valet parking area –every kind of buggy known to man wedged up cheek and jawl with one another! The only hindrance was wondering if I should have tipped the usher –for getting my double parked stroller during baby’s mid-movie meltdown