
Let me just say the following: I am not a people person. And even moreso, I am not a crowd of people person. This is because I inevitably end up next to the kind of people who I wish 'Hellraiser' level torment on. This post is about those people.
I bring this up because just like everyone else on this site, I spent the wee hours of Wednesday morning in a packed theatre to see ROTS. Normally this is no big deal because you spend at most a half hour or so until the lights go down and everyone shuts up and watches the movie. However, in their infinite wisdom the theatre that I went to decided to let everyone into the theatre TWO HOURS EARLY!
So my girlfriend, brother, and I find some prime seats which are surprisingly still open and settle in to pass the time. It takes less that 5 minutes for me to realize exactly why these seats were open, they were located next to the a group of kids from one of local high schools, and they were the pinacle of annoyance. Here are a few of the things about them that caused me to either leap out of my seat and pummel them, or go back in time to pull an anti-Mcfly and cause them to never be born:
- They discussed for 30 minutes which Counterstrike mod they liked best. And for the record, it was a split decision between the civil war mod, and the soccer mod. And no, I have no idea what any of that means, but it is what they said.
-After that they argued about what 'clans' were the best to play with. Again I have no idea what this means but it did cause the group behind these walking recessive genes, to join in on the conversation.--- As an aside, this secondary group were all wearing bathrobes. Which at first I thought was a creative homage to Arthur Dent. But since they had never heard of Arthur Dent I have to assume they were just escaped mental patients.---
-apparently having settled this latest argument, they entered into attempting to organize some kind of European soccer chants / feet stomping. Thankfully no one else joined them. Un-thankfully it took them 5 attempts to realize that no one was joining them.
-And the absolute worst part of this whole ordeal. They were playing some version of 'Asassin',
in the theatre, with Nerf guns. Now if you do not know what asassin is: it is a game where a group of people pick a name of another member of the group and it is their job to 'kill' that person by shooting them with, in this case, a nerf dart. Once you 'kill' a person you then get the name of that person plus the names of the people they 'killed' and the last person standing wins. I know this because I was in a fratenity in college. This is annoying because they apparently bought tickets for some people for the movie, with the sole intention of getting them to the theatre to 'kill' them. Which lead to a very long strategy session about where in the lobby, and behind which cardboard stand-up the 'asassin' should hide to kill them. For the record- my favorite plan was 'put your jacket over you and lay down on the bench. Pretend you were a homeless person'.
I wish I could say that this was the end of it...but alas there will be more. Look for part 3 later today