"New Moon..."

...you saw me standin' all cold,
Without a movie to watch,
without a ticket to hold.

"New moon," you knew just what I was there for,
You heard me sayin' a prayer for,
Something on screen I could care for.

And then there suddenly appeared before me,
A line that stretched from here to Madrid,
And when they couldn't get into their moon flick,
Those vampies stole my movie, instead...

"New moon," I am not feelin' so sanguine,
In fact I'm bitter, and angerin',
I hope the sun comes and melts you.

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In short, Loren and I couldn't go on our "undate" yesterday, since he had one more test up at Mayo. So we decided on tonight, dinner and a movie.

It was not to be. The line outside the Cedar Falls movie theater stretched for-EVER, but that was just for New Moon. They were still selling tickets for the other movies, like the one WE wanted to see...until they sold out.

We ran over to the other theater complex, a mere 20 minutes away. Less of a line, but our movie sold out there, too.

My theory is: so many people came for the vampire flick that they sold out for those, and then people started snapping up tickets for whatever was left.

It's not that I'm bitter, or anything. It's not like we couldn't go out for 16 years due to young children and ill health. It's not as though we had to travel 45 minutes from the sticks just to get to a decent theater.

Alright, it IS that.

We went to Menard's, instead. For men, just this side of heaven. For me, it was a dream. A bad dream, though not an awful dream.

I kept having to quell the temptation to go through the bins and redistribute all the little pieces of PVC. And by the way, did you know that a ball valve would be handy to carry in one's purse? That way, in addition to having that vital part handy at all times, it can double as a makeup mirror.

Also, it was only with the strongest measure of self-control that I didn't go up to one of the friendly workers and volunteer, "You guys could really use more chocolate around this joint....I'm just sayin'...."

I did pick up a couple of discounted movies. The girls and I watched a lovely version of Persuasion tonight, and I also have A League of Their Own, for later.

The evening wasn't a total loss. And I did learn two things:

1) People are sheep

2) Never go to the movies on Friday night
 

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