Thursday, December 5, 2019

Oops!

Well, that was fun.  Yours truly went to see When Harry Met Sally Tuesday night at Tinseltown. Got tickets Sunday night on Fandango, picked my seats, all should be fine, right? Nope.  As it turned out, I got to be THAT guy at the movies.

Arrived at the theatre Tuesday night a few minutes before the show was supposed to start and surprise, every seat in the house was filled.  Yup, the show was sold out and yes, people were in my seats.  As it just so happened, US96 had some date night promotion where it (it, not they), rented a theatre for a special screening of the movie and gave away a whole theatre's worth of tickets.  Yours truly went down and spoke to the DJ's because my tickets were definitely correct.  The DJ's went and spoke to the manager and uh-oh, it turns out they were in the wrong theatre.  Thus the entire theatre had to get up and leave.

When yours truly went to get some concessions ten minutes later, the group was still out in the hallway waiting for a theatre to open.  Needless to say, the Kingfish caught some evil looks from some of the waitees.  For one night, yours truly was that guy at the movies.

However, the people who were sitting down in the front seats that no one wants were grateful because they had been bumped but hadn't said anything.

Oh, and thirty years later, Meg Ryan can still fake it. 

Posted by Kingfish at 9:13 AM

16 comments:

Change the Flag and Fill the Potholes said...

You just lived out an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm!" Maybe you should pitch to Larry David?

Cue the all the haters again...

December 5, 2019 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...

That's hilarious. There should be a movie about this.

December 5, 2019 at 9:53 AM
Kingfish said...

Didn't feel like giving the DJ's the stare.

December 5, 2019 at 9:55 AM
Anonymous said...

9:47 AM - Laughed - rereading the story, I heard the theme music in my head. Well done.

December 5, 2019 at 11:20 AM
Anonymous said...

99.9 % of people would not put out an entire theatre of people to take a seat.

It takes a special sort of lonely depressed vindictive asshole to do that.

Lighten up Francis

December 5, 2019 at 11:23 AM
Kingfish said...

What about the 12 to 15 people who definitely bought their seats and were no able to use them or see movie because of the screwup?

December 5, 2019 at 11:40 AM
Anonymous said...

My son told me the same story Tuesday night about a different movie. It was obviously a Tinseltown screw up! My son and a friend were there to see Frozen 2 and were moved TWICE because they first sold them tickets to a reserved theatre, then moved them to an incorrect theatre, then finally to the correct theatre. The movie started over an hour late due to them shuffling folks around. It sounds like they are in desperate need of a new manager.

December 5, 2019 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...

They need to get their act together with new Renaissance theater and Malco and Northpark upgrades coming.

December 5, 2019 at 1:14 PM
Anonymous said...

Proof that your're not racist! You hate err'body! *fistbump* #metoo


Seriously though, that's goods work.

December 5, 2019 at 2:16 PM
Anonymous said...

Why not just move KF and the 12-15 others to a new theatre? Oh wait, that would be logical. Government not the only ones capable of a cluster f*ck decision.

December 5, 2019 at 4:13 PM
Anonymous said...

"Northpark Uprades"...Now there's a really hilarious thought.

December 5, 2019 at 4:26 PM
Kingfish said...

Yeah, well right now, Tinseltown is the best theatre. The seats are reserved, they are nice reclining leather seats, oh, and unlike Malco, the popcorn is fresh and not reheated.

December 5, 2019 at 4:27 PM
Kingfish said...

Not too bad considered what happened a couple of years ago. Went to see Casablanca at Malco. Packed house (and quite a few people in teens and twenties).

Well, a different movie started. Went and told manager. Problem is, the techie had already gone home. So..... the manager (all of 20) got someone in corporate, and corporate streamed the movie to the theatre.

Started 45 minutes late but no one had left and everyone enjoyed the movie. Malco was cool and gave everyone a free movie ticket to use again.

December 5, 2019 at 4:40 PM
Anonymous said...

I was at that showing of Casablanca. If I recall, the movie they started instead was Daddy’s Home 2. Not quite the same as Casablanca. I thought the Boomers were going to burn the place to the ground. Malco did make it right, though. And it was really cool to see Casablanca on the big screen.

December 5, 2019 at 5:17 PM
Kingfish said...

And gave everyone a free ticket to use later

December 4, 2020 at 12:52 PM
Kingfish said...

Boomers? Lot of 20 somethings in that crowd that night

March 8, 2024 at 4:28 PM

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