GATEWAYS [PART 2]: PSYCHO LUNCH.

GATEWAYS [PART 2]: PSYCHO LUNCH.

I’ll never forget the carefree, summer afternoon of 1993 when my best friend’s mother made us lunch and had us watch Psycho for the very first time.

Why this is such a pivotal moment is because A) we hadn’t seen a horror movie up until this point and B) she didn’t just throw the movie on. She *hosted* this living room event.

I’ll never forget how insistent and convincing she was when explaining the movie’s plot and how we had to see this. She promised to make one of her specialties, linguica sandwiches, as we sat down to watch.

Those those of you not familiar with linguica, it’s a traditional Portuguese sausage with spicy and smoky flavors. Wash it down with an ice-cold Nestea or Lipton Brisk and you have reached the heavens above.

There we sat on that sunny day. Taking a break from going in the pool to eat lunch and watch Norman Bates become his mother and stab a woman in the shower. I bet Mrs. Haselton’s VHS copy of Psycho had the perfect grainy quality to it as well.