As a child/teen did you ever try to sneak into a movie theater without paying?

I never did. I thought about what would happen if my parents found out about it.

  Back then, which was when multiplexes began cropping up, the big deal for us was buying a ticket to see one movie, and when it was over, sneaking into another theatre to watch another one for free.
  I only did it once or twice, because A) it required getting  to the movies early enough in the day to see more than one, and B) my parents knew that with up to four to six hours unaccounted for meant that  I was probably up to no good. That wasn't happening. 

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I never did that. My parents knew police officers and dispatchers. I never wanted to go home to deal with the consequences and disappointment of my parents. Honestly, I would have been too scared to try it. Even if I would have pulled it off , my conscience would have bettered me and I would have confessed. My dad worked in a federal penitentiary for around three decades. I didn’t want to ruin his reputation or respect. I also would have been in deep trouble. I probably would have been forced to go back to the theater, apologize, and pay them back by working for free for a few hours. This post was edited by Rizz at October 15, 2018 2:57 PM MDT

I only did that one time and I was like 8 years old at the time.

My buddies and I would go to the drive-in theater with one of us in the trunk, along with a case of beer. This post was edited by Element 99 at October 15, 2018 2:57 PM MDT

"I never had to do that."  From the age of eight to long after I left home my Mother worked as a cashier in movie theaters, both walk-in & drive-in, and I didn't pay to see a movie in a theater until "The Last of the Mohicans" came out.  Actually, for a time, I worked as a "yard man" in the same theater she worked in and my job was keeping people from sneaking in the back gate or throwing-out the people that snuck in in their car's trunk.

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I just told that story on the question about three or four prior to this one.  :)

I never snuck in without a ticket but I have thought some movies were so bad that I left and went to watch a different one.

A few of us would pile into the trunk at the drive in.  I could never do that now - I am claustrophobic.

No, but I would carry a joint in my pocket, sit at the end of the back row, and smoke it during the movie. You could get away with a lot of things in the 1970s that you couldn't today.