OOOwwweeeeiiioooo…..
My friend Karina has a daughter who has friends who all love the Twilight series. Some of the moms even love the books. I read the first book after my cousin Debbie insisted that I read it ASAP. I never could get into the second book, New Moon. The books are nice love stories but not quite my thing. Thankfully my sweet niece Kelly told me the ending.
So my friend Karina decided a few weeks ago that we should purchase tickets to see New Moon at the 1st showing which would be midnight this past Thursday night. Of course we had to buy tickets to see Twilight at 9:00 and then stay for New Moon. As it turned out, all 10 theaters did sell out for the midnight show so it was good we planned ahead!
Karina and her gang picked me up at 8:00. They were wearing matching Twilight t-shirts and had a life-size cut-out of Edward (leading male role). When we arrived at the theater the girls decided we should not take the cut-out. I thought that would be a waste so I decided to escort Edward to the theater walking with my arm around him. It was very dark by then and this cut-out looked like a real person only flat. Several people going past us stopped and stared and made comments. A group of girls came running up to us as soon as we got to the front of the theater. I realized that they were all in Andrew’s class. They were squealing with delight and asking to have their picture taken with Edward.
Pretty soon lots of people wanted pictures with Edward. These girls and women didn’t hesitate to hug, squeeze, and act like they were kissing the cut-out.
The employees at the theater thought the cut-out was great and didn’t mind us taking him into the theater. We sat in a row with a wider isle and stood Edward up to face the people coming in. People came in groups to have their picture made.
After watching Twilight (the theater was not even half full) some of the girls went to the lobby for snacks and a break. They came back telling us that the theater was packed full of people waiting for the midnight show. Fortunately we did not have to leave our good seats.
As soon as they started letting people in the fans recognized Edward standing in our isle. More came for pictures. Karina was really wishing we had charged people for the photo opportunity.
A group of women sat behind us and all wanted pictures. Some were drinking something they didn’t sell at the theater. They started giving the girls dollar bills for pictures.
The movie started. One of the women behind us had way too much of that drink. She was being loud and rude and eventually had to be thrown out.
What a waste of a ticket.