{"id":1245,"date":"2013-01-26T22:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T01:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2013-01-26T22:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:01:25","slug":"theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SC20121229-084346.png\"<\/a>A couple of months ago, I discovered an app called RunPee<\/a>. And the name is fitting – it\u00a0 tells you when you can run and go pee during a movie and not miss important scenes or climatic points. This is a major plus when you’ve paid a small fortune to sit in a dark theater with a bunch of strangers. And it’s conveniently available for Android, Apple and Windows mobile phones for free. Score!<\/p>\n

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At first when I heard about the app I thought “Oh OK. that’s handy for parents when they take a child to a movie. Kids often have unpredictable bladders, right.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But since getting pregnant and finding that my own bladder has become increasingly unpredictable, I’ve found it to be a very handy app. I even used it back in December when Matt<\/a> and I saw Skyfall<\/a>.\u00a0\"SC20121229-084442.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One major plus is that the app will often provide multiple options on when you can make your fast exit. It’ll describe a cue or scene that’s going to happen and you’ll also know how long you have (when James Bond says “blah blah” you have four minutes). There’s a description of what you miss and the app even has a timer if you’re really concerned about cutting things too close.<\/p>\n

Oh and if you’re someone who’s often late for movies (I never am because I LOVE watching pre-movie trailers), the app also have a quick rundown of the first three minutes for all movies. I’m a total Sheldon Cooper<\/a> when it comes to the movie theater. I’d rather sit and wait an hour for a movie to start so that I have a decent seat and avoid missing the trailers. But if you do find that getting snacks is taking longer than expected or there was a last minute bathroom visit, you’re covered.<\/p>\n

And for those of you who aren’t pregnant or taking a child with you – haven’t you been to a movie that was really long and you either had to gamble and hope you didn’t miss something good or suffer through the pain and discomfort until the credits started rolling?! I did the latter when seeing Inglorious Basterds<\/a> a few years back. Not fun!<\/p>\n

So whether you’re at a movie with a wee one, or you are someone who has to wee a lot due to an over active bladder, this is a really handy tool to help make your theater visits the best they can be.<\/p>\n

Some take away advice <\/strong>– make sure you do your research before the movie starts. Know what signals\/cues are coming up so that you’re not trying to access your phone during the movie. You could end up having someone sitting nearby give you a tongue lashing or worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago, I discovered an app called RunPee. And the name is fitting – it\u00a0 tells you when you can run and go pee during a movie and not miss important scenes or climatic points. This is a major plus when you’ve paid a small fortune to sit in a dark theater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[97,93,98,79,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-k5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}