hello there everybody...
i went to watch a movie yesterday... alone...
it was the 9.30 pm show...
and the process of buying a ticket went something like this...
ME: Hi, can I have one ticket for "Infection" please?
UNLUCKY GIRL AT BOX OFFICE NINE-O'CLOCK SHIFT: One?
ME: Yes one... (looks expectantly UGABONS)
UGABONS: ...err... OK.
(UGABONS tries to maintain an even voice and almost succeeds. She unfortunately has less control over her facial muscles as she gapes in bewilderment at ME.)
(UGABONS looks like CHIMP seeing self in mirror for the first time.)
(Hands out one ticket)
Eight-fifty please.
(Thought bubble appears: "Single (obviously!). How sad." ME with superior intuition undoubtedly notices this.)
ME: (While making payment, and deciding whether to salvage reputation or preserve dignity) Yeah, err, thanks.
(CHIMP stares as embarrased ME exits stage right.)
so anyway i go for a walk while waiting for the movie to start...
it was a spur of the moment decision see... so time management was obviously out the window...
so anyway i come back in about half an hour's time... and i enter the cinema...
then i realize i entered the wrong one so i leave looking like desperate blind date guy who's been stood up...
i enter the cinema... the correct one this time... and get to my seat...
i look around and see that it's half filled...
the only people there are a group of boiseterous teenagers... probably all nicely paired up...
and plenty of couples...
now the box office girl's chimpy expression really makes sense to me...
so i sit through a movie i hardly understand in a freezing theatre...
half the time wondering when it's gonna end...
and the other half wondering why there's so much green goo on the screen...
the latter's the former half and the former's the latter half...
go figure...
and nobody is to say i need a life...
at all...
Sunday, May 1
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4 comments:
you need to get a life charlie.
knk
*gasp*
u watched a movie?! WILLINGLY?! omigosh..
go watch THE INTERPRETER. ALONE if u want..
but no, it isn't sad to watch movies alone. it's quite an experience actually.
since everyone's putting their two cents worth...
aiyoh..charlie arh, of all movies, why choose infection to watch alone? it screams cheap horror flick, the kind where couples go so that the girl can scream n hide her head in the bf's arms and the guy meanwhile can take whatever advantage he desires of her..hm.
No wonder the attendant thought you strange.
But don't worry..many many people watch films alone..judging by the calls i got frm the film festival at sistic. and mostly men.
Poor forsaken lonely souls. ^_^
man.
Good day. This is Vaughn writing. May I assist you by advising further?
Wah. Weiman seems to know those kinda cheap horror flicks so well, perhaps because she's a frequent user of those movies. I say USER and there's no error in it. Haha.
Well, perhaps Tuan was trying to get some girl/boy to scream and hide his/her head in his arms and then he can... you know what I mean.
And Auntie Weiman, why don't you accompany those lonely lonely men to the film festival? Haha.. Alternatively, just accompany my darling shu shu for a movie.
Ok, this post is just full of crap. Ignore if you must. But then again, we're nearing the end of my comment!
Thank you for reading this post and have a nice day.
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