To the customer who unknowingly ruined my night

OK, so you didn’t really ruin my night. You weren’t rude or anything, so I can’t really complain. But you did have a hand in preventing me from previewing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tonight, an accomplishment I feel that you must somehow pay retribution for.

You see, the new Harry Potter movie is due to be released tomorrow at midnight, and so in preparation for this monumental event, we were supposed to preview at least two of the prints tonight to make sure they were in fine working condition for the midnight shows. One of the prints was supposed to be previewed in theater 7, a theater that was scheduled to play Ice Age 2 at 10:35. If nobody was watching the 10:35 show, then we would have been able to start previewing Harry Potter around 11, finish it around 2, and then I could come home, sleep, and trudge my way back to work in the morning.

But no. You, young girl, decided to purchase one single ticket to the 10:35 Ice Age show. One ticket. I ripped your ticket, and you walked inside. Because you purchased that one single ticket, Ice Age had to run in theater 7 as scheduled, and there wouldn’t be any Harry Potter until 1 am, at which point I definitely would not have been able to stay awake for, considering the fact that I’m currently running on 3 hours of sleep.

And the funny thing is — you didn’t even show up for your movie! There was not a single person in theater 7 when I checked, even though the movie was running and even though our records say that one person was in there for that showtime. So of course, we concluded that you must have been one of those pesky under-17 kids who wanted to sneak into Bruno or The Hangover or god forbid, Public Enemies instead.

I don’t care if you snuck into an R-rated movie. Not when all I wanted to do was watch Harry Potter. Why couldn’t you have bought a ticket for The Proposal instead? Or I Love You, Beth Cooper? Or some other movie that wasn’t Ice Age at 10:35? Because of you, missy, I had to turn down watching Harry Potter before everyone else because I did not want to stay at the mall any longer than I had to, and staying there until the wee hours of the morning was not on my agenda. Now because of you, I have to actually go buy a ticket and watch the midnight show with all the other regular folk. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

/rant