I had planned to go see the Opera "Iphigenia in Tauris" today. It supposed to start at 8:00pm. I am supposed to dress up, pick up my friend at 6:30 pm and meet Snoopy at 7:00pm in front of the theatre so it gives me an hour for any type of unforeseen events. On the surface this plan seems quite simple and fool-proof. But really, here is how it went down:
4:30: Call my friend to double check time of pick up at 6:30pm,was invited to friend's house for dinner so planned to get there at 5:30 instead.
mood: YAY FOOD!
5:30: arrived at friends house to realize that I have brought neither dress nor binocular nor books promised friend. I haven't panicked because as I said before, I have an hour window. So revised plan to go back home after dinner for things I need.
mood: embarrassed but calm
6:30: finished dinner while calmly convincing friend's mom that we have plenty of time. dragged friend back home.
mood: determined
6:50: finally picked up stuff that I ACTUALLY NEED for Opera. Call Snoopy to tell her going to be delayed til 7:15 pm.
mood: perfectly calm..
7:15: Call Snoopy again to tell her we are stuck in small traffic at the highway exit,
mood: still not panicking.. after all, still have 45 minutes to spare.
7:27: While parking Snoopy calls to tell me they are going in and has left ticket with usher. I thought no problem. It isn't nice to make Snoopy wait anyway.
mood: feeling a little bit of urgency
7:40: arrive at Opera House with 20 minutes to spare~!! walks calmly to the Usher who tells me that we are actually late since the show actually starts at 7:30 PM!!!!! Now we have to stay outside and wait for intermission.. at HALFTIME!!!!
mood: =O AHHH!!!! OMGWTF!!! Soul crushed...
7:45: in complete distraction and panic, I made giant papercut on my finger while I was flipping the program.
mood: pain!! :(
8:40 : finally sitting down for second half of opera
mood: remorseful,
So yeah, that was how it actually went down.... I have no idea why I thought the opera started at 8 instead of 7:30... so this is great example of how one piece of bad assumption can cause giant catastrophic chain of event to fall down. :(
oh yeah btw, the second half was pretty awesome LOL.
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Ouch, sounded like a pretty rough beginning of the night :( At least you'll probably now never ever again make a mistake on any future showtimes.
Did you bring opera glasses or high powered modern binoculars?
I have a small pair of bird watching binocular. so they are the same size as opera glasses, but it looks like one of htose wilderness survival ones haha.
Poor Catnipped. :(
I guess you and your friend got the first dibs to the Häagen-Dazs during intermission.
Ironically, the same thing happened to me a while back. I had thought an exhibition was a week earlier than it really was. Fortunately, I caught my mistake just before I made the trip downtown. I have no idea why I got the dates messed up. I guess I was subconsciously so sure of the dates that I neglected to double check them.
Haha, this reminds me of one time when Kungfucius gave me a ride to the Syracuse airport from Ithaca (which is a 1.5 hr drive) only to find out that my flight was actually the next day. Super goof-up on my part!
lol. That's understandable though. Who won't want to leave Ithaca early? Did you only find out when you tried to check in?
Who goes to the airport a day early...? That is not at all like mixing up the time by half an hour!!!
Yeah I only found out when I checked in...the airline person gave me a very puzzled look and told me I had come a day early. I think I had the biggest 'oh shiiiiittttt' expression ever.
Should have asked if you could get on an earlier flight =)
I did ask, and I did manage to get an evening flight (like 5 or 6 PM or something) instead of staying overnight. Still, that's like a 12 hour wait or something.
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