Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

If the seats are bookable online and you buy a ticket in the cinema, you get a ticket with a seat number on it, just like in the theatre now.

I've never been to a theatre.

When I've been to a cinema you buy a ticket, walk up to the door, bloke rips the ticket in half and opens the door - you then sit where you want.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Write a nice, polite letter to the Manager, pointing out your trip was ruined because of these two events.... and hope for some freebie tickets so you can go back

I don't go to the cinema, it's not good alone + I don't like having people behind me + I don't like the noise the others make + the nearest one's 20 miles away, but they're building one here now.

Last time I went, it was a "date". Second/last though. He was a right 4rse. We'd chatted online and met for a lunchtime drink - all was OK, he was fine. He was well paid, in a smallish/cheap house in the cheap area and had a lodger. I was so poor the lunchtime drink nearly broke me. He asked me to go to the cinema, I drove 17 miles to meet him and he decided we'd then use my car to go the rest of the way, which from there was another 15 miles. He then didn't even offer to pay for me to go in and when we came out and went in a pub he didn't even offer to buy the first round. He'd known I rarely went out as I didn't have spare money after the mortgage/bills were paid.

So, he was a selfish pr1ck. Didn't see him again.

We spoke to the manageress after the film, she was really apologetic but I didn't give her a hard time over it because she lets eldest get away with child price still..even though he should have been paying adult for the last two years (and she knows how old he is).

My one and only relationship in my divorced state, one night because speedway was rained off, offered to take me and the boys to the cinema. We arrived there and he started to look at all the arty farty films (hmn, young boys really like arty farty films eh?) and was most disappointed when he was out voted.....we saw Mall cop instead .

Anyway, he had a face that was either like a wet weekend or was gurning all the way through the film....youngest still does a brilliant impression of him. To say he was not impressed with the film was an understatement, he used big words, intelligent words (all derogatory) to describe his viewing experience but was promptly shut up by eldest saying "It's a kids film, what do you expect? Bloody Shakespeare?"

After he took us for a meal at a local pub where all the boys berated him for buying himself a pint as he was driving because "Mum says you should never drink alcohol when you are driving, it is very naughty and bad and will kill people"

Strangely, that was our last ever date...........:rotfl:

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

wonder how misskool's ay has been.

I'd been wondering whether she was expecting an invite in the post this morning? Possibly not just to the main event but also lunch or dinner afterwards. She'd need to get a posh frock and learn how to speak through her nose.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been to a theatre.

Why not? There must be local shows on, especially in the tourist season. Or the local amateur drama.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Why not? There must be local shows on, especially in the tourist season. Or the local amateur drama.

There is one dire am dram place up the road, they put on 2 shows a year for a week or so. It's run by an over-bearing, tyrannical and irrational woman though.

I just looked at their website. They have stuff listed for:
13-16 Feb and 23-26 Feb: Something's Burning, Eric Chappell
Tue & Wed eves mid-May to mid-July: The Cemetary Club by Ivan Menchell
Tue & Wed eves Aug-Oct: It Could Be Any One of Us by Alan Ayckbourn
23-26 November & 30 Nov - 3 Dec: Happy Christmas Shirley by Louise Roche

Now, seriously, does any of that sound vaguely inviting? To sit in a small shed and watch god knows what on a small stage.

GDB2222

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I'd try that one

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now, seriously, does any of that sound vaguely inviting? To sit in a small shed and watch god knows what on a small stage.

I'll be doing that at the end of this week. It's the village Panto, and I know all the corny lines, 'cos the producer emailed me the script by mistake. :rotfl:

I like am-dram. Anything can happen.

LydiaJ

I am soooo tired, and I have a streaming cold, but half the stuff has been done. The removals men will be back here at 8.15 to start the second half today.

Meanwhile, here are some pics of the paint job. If the edges look rough, it's because the photos were taken before the masking tape came off!

My room:


Yellow end of DD's room, showing red & lilac walls at sides:


Blue end of DD's room, showing DS's vibrant green at the other end of the landing:


Spare room, showing match between new wall (on left) and existing blue wall (on right):


I'll leave these up a day or so, and take them down again.

GDB2222

A silly Times article about people with appropriate names for their job, but one made me chuckle -- Dr Fred Grabiner, the gynaecologist.

Davesnave

You're doing so well, Lydia! You'll be really happy that you toughed it out, once the furniture's in and your cold has run its course.