The Day After Tomorrow

Hudson Bay: The Day After Tomorrow 

This was one of those epic roller coaster ride kinda movies. It was a big event and you had to get there early and get in line. My wife and I got there 20 minutes before a showing and it was sold out. No biggie. We just decided to get tickets for the next show. We found our theater down an empty hallway. We planted ourselves on the bench. We were first.

Then some lady walks up and stands next to us. She doesn't sit in the remaining space of the bench. Whatever.

She looks around. She starts wandering. Soon, she has meandered from one side of the bench to the other...to the space that is between the bench and the door to the theater. Very sneaky. Now she thinks she's first. Whatever.

Then a family of a dad and his three boys shows up. They sit across the hall at the very end. Now they're directly across from the door. They're now competing with the meandering lady for first place. Whatever.

Then a couple marches down the hallway and sails right into the theater about 45 minutes before our scheduled showing...and about 15 minutes before the end of the prior showing. Now, it's getting weird.

So then people start lining up next to the dad and his boys. One by one they come and they all start plopping down on the floor forming a line. We're not in the line. The line formed opposite us. We were first. But not anymore. Now, we are outcasts.

The manager comes by and asks what movie everyone is waiting for. We point to the theater. He asks the dad and the boys if they are the head of the line. They reply that they are!

More people flow into the still-viewing theater.

The movie ends and folks start to stream out. Cleaning crews head in. Then nothing.

Then the people that had stormed the theater at the very end get kicked out. They stand in the doorway to the theater as soon as they reach the hallway. Now, they are certainly "first" because they are clogging all entry to and exit from the theater.

We all stand up from our various positions of "first" and we push to the doors. I tell my wife that I’m going to plow forth and get seats.

Whoosh...we all are allowed in. Trample trample trample. There are no lines. No one is first. It's just a big pushy crowd.

We got the seats that we wanted. Thankfully, we were early.

Oh, yeah. The movie. Yeah, we watched it.