Hovering PO
Thomas Newman, soundtrack to "Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events", which is much too long of a title to say or type.
I had fun tonight with Joe and Ross, and while what follows is no amazing tale worthy of a book, it was enjoyable and memorable and i'd like to share it.
We were going to visit Sam, but he was sick, so instead we dropped off a new TV (new to him), then headed to the Buckland Hills cinema for Harry Potter in iMax. We bought the tickets, then headed to a Wendy's just down the street to tap into the dollar menu. We ordered a total of 6 jr. bacon cheeseburgers, 2 small frosties, 2 medium fries, and one 6-pc. chicken nuggets. What we got, after we had already paid, was 9 jr. bacon cheeseburgers, 2 small frosties, 3 medium fries, and 2 6-pc. chicken nuggets. In short, we got an extra nugget order, and 3 extra burgers. We weren't going to complain.
I asked for extra bags which we used to individually wrap most of the items for temporary storage in our coats to smuggle them into the theatre. We got past the main entrance, with very curious looking bulges in our coats, and proceeded into the "iMax" to take our seats. I put "iMax" in quotes, because i don't think it's worthy of the title. I would just call it "big". The screen was huge, but no larger than most of the bigger theatres. There were two rear speakers that were ginormous, but they looked like they had just been stuck there so they could put the title "iMax" on the outside. It wasn't very convincing.
Anyways, we get in, unload our evening meal from our outer vestments (spelling?), and begin to partake. The projector operator (herein known as PO) watches us from behind the glass separating the projector room from the theatre, and then reports us. The reason he saw us so well is because our seats were right in front of the projector. So this guy comes in (mind you, there are only 5 other people seeing this film) and tells us we can't eat "outside food" in here. "Okay," we reply, cleverly deciding that if we stop eating it, we're obeying the rules. So we return the food to the white Wendy's bags, and set them down. Our frostys are probably a little melty at this point.
Then another guy comes in 3 minutes later and says, "You can't have outside food in here. The PO's been watching you this whole time, and he's waited ten minutes to start the film because of it." When he says this, we're at 8:05, the start time for the film. Maybe the clock in the projector room is ten minutes fast. He thought he was holding everyone up just because of our foolish decision, when in actuality, he had caused no delay whatsoever.
So, in the end, we decided that i would bring everything out to the car, with the exception of the medium fry and two burgers that had already been consumed. After the movie, we ended up eating a couple burgers cold, and the frostys were good (they keep well in 28 degree weather). We were quite upset, and are now boycotting that cinema because of it. Ah well.
Moral of the story: Don't unload the food and start eating until the movie has started. The PO won't hover over your seats to see what you're eating at that point.
I had fun tonight with Joe and Ross, and while what follows is no amazing tale worthy of a book, it was enjoyable and memorable and i'd like to share it.
We were going to visit Sam, but he was sick, so instead we dropped off a new TV (new to him), then headed to the Buckland Hills cinema for Harry Potter in iMax. We bought the tickets, then headed to a Wendy's just down the street to tap into the dollar menu. We ordered a total of 6 jr. bacon cheeseburgers, 2 small frosties, 2 medium fries, and one 6-pc. chicken nuggets. What we got, after we had already paid, was 9 jr. bacon cheeseburgers, 2 small frosties, 3 medium fries, and 2 6-pc. chicken nuggets. In short, we got an extra nugget order, and 3 extra burgers. We weren't going to complain.
I asked for extra bags which we used to individually wrap most of the items for temporary storage in our coats to smuggle them into the theatre. We got past the main entrance, with very curious looking bulges in our coats, and proceeded into the "iMax" to take our seats. I put "iMax" in quotes, because i don't think it's worthy of the title. I would just call it "big". The screen was huge, but no larger than most of the bigger theatres. There were two rear speakers that were ginormous, but they looked like they had just been stuck there so they could put the title "iMax" on the outside. It wasn't very convincing.
Anyways, we get in, unload our evening meal from our outer vestments (spelling?), and begin to partake. The projector operator (herein known as PO) watches us from behind the glass separating the projector room from the theatre, and then reports us. The reason he saw us so well is because our seats were right in front of the projector. So this guy comes in (mind you, there are only 5 other people seeing this film) and tells us we can't eat "outside food" in here. "Okay," we reply, cleverly deciding that if we stop eating it, we're obeying the rules. So we return the food to the white Wendy's bags, and set them down. Our frostys are probably a little melty at this point.
Then another guy comes in 3 minutes later and says, "You can't have outside food in here. The PO's been watching you this whole time, and he's waited ten minutes to start the film because of it." When he says this, we're at 8:05, the start time for the film. Maybe the clock in the projector room is ten minutes fast. He thought he was holding everyone up just because of our foolish decision, when in actuality, he had caused no delay whatsoever.
So, in the end, we decided that i would bring everything out to the car, with the exception of the medium fry and two burgers that had already been consumed. After the movie, we ended up eating a couple burgers cold, and the frostys were good (they keep well in 28 degree weather). We were quite upset, and are now boycotting that cinema because of it. Ah well.
Moral of the story: Don't unload the food and start eating until the movie has started. The PO won't hover over your seats to see what you're eating at that point.
posted by Still Daddy at 12:12 AM
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