Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/06/21 06:53 PM
The 1987 movie Adventures in Babysitting illustrates what teenagers, or anyone for that matter, should not do if one wishes to avoid a survival situation. Or, if you happen to be in a survival situation, it illustrates what not to do in one.
One, if you take a cab to downtown Chicago, make sure you have enough money for a round trip.
Two, even if you drive another person's car, be sure it has a spare tire.
Three, don't leave home or place of employment without your purse.
Four, if you wear glasses and are in a bus station in downtown Chicago, don't remove your glasses and lay them down where someone could steal them.
Five, if you get mixed up with an organized crime ring, don't take anything of theirs. They will be hunting for you to get it back.
Six, even if a street gang member calls your babysitter a witch, stay out of street gang affairs.
Seven, while awaiting rescue because you didn't have the money for a round trip cab, at least have cash stashed away for a hot dog.
Eight, if organized crime members are chasing you and you use an elevator to escape, don't press the buttons with chocolate-covered fingers.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: teacher
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/06/21 07:31 PM
Man, I wish I would have know these yesterday...
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 12:27 PM
How about we branch out? What survival lessons can we learn from other movies?
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: hikermor
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 12:47 PM
Even better, read real life accounts of actual survival situations, including those that did not go well. Movies are inevitably scripted
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 01:01 PM
Movies are inevitably scripted
But that's what makes movies, such as
Adventures in Babysitting, funny. This group of teenagers does everything wrong during a survival situation, such as get involved in street gang affairs.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: hikermor
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 02:00 PM
Scripted = fiction, imaginary (to some degree or another)
I prefer reality, although accounts may be biased or slanted, so careful....
You are free to establish you own universe....
Posted by: brandtb
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 07:15 PM
A Christmas Story: Never say the F-word in front of your father, even if you lose all the lug nuts.
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 07:45 PM
A Christmas Story: Never say the F-word in front of your father, even if you lose all the lug nuts.
I would not call that scene a survival situation. Getting one's tongue stuck to a pole would.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: haertig
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 08:40 PM
An all along, I thought Adventures in Babysitting was just a funny and entertaining movie.
There's a lot to be "learned" from many movies if that's the goal. For example, do not expect your 15 round magazine to hold 5381+ rounds like in the typical cops and robbers movie. And don't expect your gun to automatically cock itself every time an adversary walks around the corner. But do expect your place in hiding to be given away to the bad guy because every time you even look at a knife sitting on a bed it goes "ZZZiiiiiinnggg!!!"
Most movies are designed for entertainment, not instructing. They do the stupidest stuff in movies.
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/07/21 08:44 PM
They do the stupidest stuff in movies.
All the more reason not to follow their example.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: Herman30
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 03:18 AM
A Christmas Story: Never say the F-word in front of your father, even if you lose all the lug nuts.
I would not call that scene a survival situation.
Jeanette Isabelle
Depends on how violent the father is.
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 10:15 AM
Depends on how violent the father is.
It wasn't a violent movie.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: brandtb
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 11:03 AM
Posted by: Jeanette_Isabelle
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 01:26 PM
It's been a while since I saw that movie.
Jeanette Isabelle
Posted by: Blast
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 07:49 PM
A Christmas Story: Never say the F-word in front of your father, even if you lose all the lug nuts.
I would not call that scene a survival situation. Getting one's tongue stuck to a pole would.
Jeanette Isabelle
Depending on the location, losing just one lug nut can turn an annoyance into a survival situation. Losing all of them definitely ups the risk. I think the take home message from that scene is what may "slip out" can have very major consequences and so one should strive to control themselves even in non-emergencies.
For another "non-survival survival movie" I suggest "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles". It shows the importance of improvisation, open-mindedness, maintaining a positive attitude, and dressing for the weather.
-Blast
Posted by: brandtb
Re: Survival Lessons From Adventures in Babysitting - 08/08/21 10:40 PM
A Christmas Story: Never say the F-word in front of your father, even if you lose all the lug nuts.
I would not call that scene a survival situation. Getting one's tongue stuck to a pole would.
Jeanette Isabelle
Depending on the location, losing just one lug nut can turn an annoyance into a survival situation. Losing all of them definitely ups the risk. I think the take home message from that scene is what may "slip out" can have very major consequences and so one should strive to control themselves even in non-emergencies.
For another "non-survival survival movie" I suggest "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles". It shows the importance of improvisation, open-mindedness, maintaining a positive attitude, and dressing for the weather.
-Blast
Take one lug nut off each of the other three wheels. And then drive home very slowly.