So Friday is just a warm up for the festival, they don't show the first one until about 5 pm. Neither T2 nor I really wanted to stay up late to watch the movies after 8pm, especially since we were planning on getting up to watch the first one on Saturday. Which meant we had to be in line by 7am. To when we got there at 7 am our line was already 30 deep, and we were wondering how that could be. Last year when we got to the first showing at 7 am we were like 3rd in line - what a difference a year makes. So we took are places and waited the hour and a half to get in, but it was well worth it.
The next movie we decided to see was downtown Telluride, and while we had never been outside the Chuck Jones theater, we decided that we had to see this particular movie on Saturday and it wasn't playing until Sunday at the CJ so we would have to see five movies in a row on Sunday and that would just be too much.
We got in line, and I didn't have any worries that we would get in. None. So then they came and handed out these number "Q's" my number was 74 and T2's number was 75, I was sure we would get in (the theater holds 185) and I didn't worry about it. But the person who handed out the Q's told us that this did not guarantee that we would get in. But I was sure that we would. Absolutely.
Then they started letting people in, and as we got closer and closer to the front I heard the dreaded words we have 12 seats left. T2 and I were15 back. They let 11 go, then there were 4. The two ahead of us kept telling the guy that they already had seats that their husbands had gone in and they were waiting for them. Finally they let them in, and told us we they didn't have any left. T2 asked about the two in front that they said that they had, but they said no - that we should go- it was all filled up. We were sure that they had two left so we didn't budge and they shut the doors. Still we stayed stubbornly standing there - how could we be two seats short, and then it happened - we heard the radio crackle and we have two open seats...
One was in front one was in back - T2 gave me the back one she took the front one. I had a perfect view - T2 not so much. T2 loved it, me not so much. Not because it wasn't beautiful and powerful, but because it was.
The next movie we decided to see was downtown Telluride, and while we had never been outside the Chuck Jones theater, we decided that we had to see this particular movie on Saturday and it wasn't playing until Sunday at the CJ so we would have to see five movies in a row on Sunday and that would just be too much.
We got in line, and I didn't have any worries that we would get in. None. So then they came and handed out these number "Q's" my number was 74 and T2's number was 75, I was sure we would get in (the theater holds 185) and I didn't worry about it. But the person who handed out the Q's told us that this did not guarantee that we would get in. But I was sure that we would. Absolutely.
Then they started letting people in, and as we got closer and closer to the front I heard the dreaded words we have 12 seats left. T2 and I were15 back. They let 11 go, then there were 4. The two ahead of us kept telling the guy that they already had seats that their husbands had gone in and they were waiting for them. Finally they let them in, and told us we they didn't have any left. T2 asked about the two in front that they said that they had, but they said no - that we should go- it was all filled up. We were sure that they had two left so we didn't budge and they shut the doors. Still we stayed stubbornly standing there - how could we be two seats short, and then it happened - we heard the radio crackle and we have two open seats...
One was in front one was in back - T2 gave me the back one she took the front one. I had a perfect view - T2 not so much. T2 loved it, me not so much. Not because it wasn't beautiful and powerful, but because it was.
WOW - the combination of T2 & T3 = superatomic persistence and ???? Glad you didn't have hand grenades since it sounds like you might have rolled a few down the aisle to make sure you had a seat.
ReplyDeleteI guess they don't have standing room. Does the fact that you were numbers 74& 75 mean that over 100 "big donor/VIPs" went in first?
Your loyal readers want to know what was the name of the movie so that we can either see or avoid? Huh, huh, huh?