doranosaurus ([info]doranosaurus) wrote,
@ 2005-12-18 00:36:00
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Hairy Pothead
Tonight was a minor social disaster. I was supposed to meet a friend at a movie theater. I went and waited where I said I would until 20 minutes past when the movie was supposed to start and then went in. When I got out I had 4 messages on my machine with her voice getting more and more miserable and angry that I wasn't there. She made me feel like I'd done something wrong but I don't think I did. I can't think of any reason to feel sorry. The only thing I can think of is take my cell phone into the theater but I don't usually carry around my cell phone and certainly not in a theater. So I figure she pretty much hates me now. But I don't think I deserve it.

What's the proper thing to do when you agree to meet at a movie and one person doesn't show up? I would do just what I did which was go into the theater and keep an eye out for them.

I sympathize with her for having to take a bus and go out in the cold and all but I don't know. Is a guy supposed to just suck it up when a woman is upset at him even if he's done nothing wrong? Should I just say I'm sorry and not defend myself? I suppose that would be the gentlemanly thing to do.

P.S. She just AIM'd me and she's not mad. Phew. So everything's fine. Nevermind!

P.S.S. The movie was Hairy Pothead and the Goblet of Fire. It was just fair. I din't like it that much. I think the last one was better, just a little. This one was scarier and more gruesome. Not for little kiddies. And there was tons of stuff about adolescence; first dates, battle of the sexes stuff. Kinda corny, even for teenagers! I sat next to an elderly couple who seemed to love the corny parts! They cooed and awed at those parts. But I definitely wanted to bang Hermione! Just kidding. She actually looked pretty much the same. The two boys looked much older tho. Prof Snape is by far my favorite. He steals every scene he's in. I'd like to see a whole movie about him. He's totally goth and sarcastic.



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[info]stormodacentury
2005-12-18 11:31 am UTC (link)
See, the way I would handle that is with a generalization that expresses the sympathy without admitting fault. "Man, I'm really sorry that we had that miscommunication. (Or whatever)"

I thought Goblet of Fire was pretty good. I think that if they had been able to put in some of the subplots they had to take out for time, it would really have fleshed out the movie a bit. It seeming a bit thin was my biggest problem.

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[info]welfy
2005-12-18 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I agree with the movie seeming "thin"...there was so much I was looking for, and then it wasn't there!

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-12-19 04:57 am UTC (link)
But you have retarded taste in movies! Heheh, no offense. :)

I agree it's best not to place blame and to sympathize.

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[info]kejn
2005-12-18 03:44 pm UTC (link)
i think 20-25 minutes is enough waiting time. i'd recommend to have the cell phone on though, while waiting. you could have called her and told her to meet you inside. she was obviously very upset that she missed you. i would have been very upset too.

now get your butt over to my journal and flirt with me! :-)

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-12-19 04:54 am UTC (link)
Hahhaa! Gladly.

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[info]janezanaddict
2005-12-18 08:04 pm UTC (link)
I am like the only person in the world who could give a shit less about Harry Potter. I feel strange and isolated.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-12-19 04:47 am UTC (link)
Wrong, I could give a shit less too! You could say, we both give two shits about Whorey Pooter, I mean Harry Potter.

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[info]janezanaddict
2005-12-19 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Which is so funny because as I was writing that comment I was actually thinking about putting "I could give two shits less" then I thought you might think I sound like the slang speaking southern girl I really am! haha!

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[info]mandy_moon
2005-12-18 08:24 pm UTC (link)
Eh, it looks like nobody's mad anymore, but I guess in hindsight, you could have called her and left a message saying "Hey, it's 20-past, I'm going into the theatre, look around for me once you get here..."

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[info]sealwhiskers
2005-12-18 09:33 pm UTC (link)
I actually like the films better than the books (which I think are very so-so in writing style). Agree about Snape, and thankfully even an average writer like Rowling has grasped that her fan-base ADORES snape, and is giving him key moments in coming stories.

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[info]poor_turtle
2005-12-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)
I think you totally did the right thing. What did she expect you to do, sit outside in the cold and wait for her??

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[info]cagekitten
2005-12-19 04:33 pm UTC (link)
I'm confused. She arrived more than 20 minutes late and actually expected you to still be outside waiting for her!?

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-12-19 06:34 pm UTC (link)
No she didn't expect me to be still waiting for her. She was upset that she could not get ahold of my by cellphone I think.

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[info]soopageek
2005-12-20 05:08 am UTC (link)
i know what you mean about banging hermione. that's one young lady that i'll be much much happier when she's 18+ so i don't feel so damn creepy.

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[info]takenbutterfly
2006-01-22 09:01 pm UTC (link)
Missed me too much, eh?

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[info]xcentrikka
2006-01-22 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Hah, I never even read this. But for the record, I was NOT 20 minutes late, I was actually EARLY, but hopelessly lost, which is WHY I called your cell phone to begin with. So nyah!

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[info]lesleyest
2006-01-23 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Yay! Doran's back!

Now tell us where you've been and what you've been doing.

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[info]kejn
2006-01-23 08:40 pm UTC (link)
doranosaurus is back from the dead?

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(this guy and i had some quality time together at school the other day.) :-)

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[info]fififf
2006-03-15 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Well my view is waiting is fine unless something is about to start and you have to go in. Also I would say that texting that you are running late always seem to get through even when calls don't and this solves the problem of finding calls on voicemail hours later. You did right thing to go in as if she had turned up 30 mins after you and come in then she doesn't have to look too far for her and you can fill her in on what she has missed. If I was late I would have let the person know what was happening in real time so they could decide to wait or go on.

There are some people that say 'a man is always wrong if the woman says so' and others I know would say (men) 'say sorry whatever it is, even if you not sure or not wrong as its what the woman wants to hear and always makes her start to calm down'

Anyway glad you sorted it out. I think I will leave that film till it comes out on DVD. I write too much!!!!!! Cello-tape up my fingers!

School, hmmm student or teacher or cleaner of the biology lab and worshiper of Mr Bones ?! :-)

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[info]welfy
2006-01-24 02:54 am UTC (link)
:^)

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[info]takenbutterfly
2006-02-16 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Could you please remove me, I am getting annoyed with this deleting/undeleting thing. It's really anooying and it's pissing me off.

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[info]sealwhiskers
2006-02-16 08:49 pm UTC (link)
Please stay this time?

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[info]janezanaddict
2006-02-16 09:11 pm UTC (link)
What happened to you? Your diary disappeared awhile back and now it is back again! I have wondered about you often....hope everything is well!

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[info]mayrlove
2006-02-16 11:54 pm UTC (link)
yay! you deleted and now you are back! i missesed you!

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[info]onesoul
2006-02-17 12:24 am UTC (link)
welcome back. I was wondering where you went off to.

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[info]bonanzajellybee
2006-02-18 09:11 pm UTC (link)
You are back and in one piece?!

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[info]iceofpoetry
2006-02-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)
I know everyone is saying this, but YAY, your back!!!

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