I swear I am a magnet for bad luck. There is that saying that goes around "If something bad is going to happen, it'll happen to me" and I am 99.5% sure that it was referring to me.
No, it's not usually debilitating bad luck. Just a Man, You Gotta Laugh At That Bad Luck.
For example. Kim had bought tickets for us to go see New Moon forever and a day ago. I wasn't terribly thrilled with Twilight (much like Star Wars: Episode I and the sequels, they used very green actors and it was just... painful. I liked the book way better, which seems to be the overall consensus out there) but I was willing to give New Moon a try since I knew there was a new director, the actors had more experience by now... blah blah.
Okay, so we are going to the 12:01 a.m. showing. Cool! Kim picks me up and we head over to the theater, after a long day at work, at about 9:30 or so. It's raining off and on, mostly on by that time. Even arriving that early, we were still pretty close to the end of the line. Apparently there were kids that had gotten out from school and went right over to the theater because they were doing their homework in line.
This should also tell you the age range of most of our fellow line-waiters.
Yay! I am thirty-one years old and I feel way out of place!
But seriously, there were women older than me who were trying so, so hard to be a teenager. I'm talking a acid wash jean skirt, a "Team Edward" shirt, and - I kid you not - knee high suede boots. And that acid wash skirt? Authentic 80's. Tawny Kitaen. No joke. Most of the others in line weren't even alive when that skirt was made.
So, cool. Yay! They are letting the herd in! We are slow moving, but finally find our way to the doors into the theater. The only seats available were in the waaaaaaay front, I really think we were second row, off to the left. But, once the previews started, it wasn't that bad of a seat.
So the movie begins. I think it was about halfway through that I start to feel a few drops of wet falling on me.
Looking around, I whisper to Kim, "Did you feel that?" She shakes her head, and looks at me like I am on a bad acid trip.
Drip. Drip. Driiiiip.
I look to the woman to my left and she is holding out her hands and looking at the ceiling and laughs that "only to me" laugh I am rather familiar with.
"Glad I brought a rain hat!" she says as she plops it on. I laugh and pull the hood from my hoodie on.
For the remainder of the movie, the three of us (Kim got rained on later) endured drippings from the rain-laden rooftop.
So, the movie. I felt it was better than Twilight. Still liked the book better (and I was really not a fan of this book, it was slow and boooring). Guess I better get on Eclipse now. I am about 1/3 of the way through it, though now I have it on audiobook so I am way more likely to finish it. ;-)
