What’s Up With The Movie Theatre Bag-Checking Policy? (Or, Getting Bottles of Booze In: Hand ‘Em To Your Guy Friends)

Ladies, have you noticed that at all of the Yakima/Union Gap movie houses they now check your purse — EVERY TIME?

Based on a previous conversation I had several months ago with Dale Carpenter, general manager for Yakima Theatres Inc., the bag-checking policy was up to the ticket-taker’s discretion, but now it seems all bags get a glance.

However, I’ve yet to have any of my male movie-going (and, admittedly, non-purse-carrying) friends searched.

The lesson being, then, not that this is a sexist policy, but that if you’re going to sneak snacks in, hand ’em over to your guy friends.

Especially because one local vino fan — a man — managed to sneak an ENTIRE BOTTLE OF WINE into one of our local cineplexes, plus plastic cups. (Look for his next equally indignant column about getting kicked out for smoking pot at “Pineapple Express.”)