Plans Always Change.

So I haven’t written in a little while… I had a couple friends from New York come down here to sunny ol’ RI for a few days to hang out… haha, good times, good times. Chilling, cracking jokes, doing whatever we feel like before the pressures of school and/or work start again in a few short days simply because we can, etc. lol.

Hanging with these guys definitely produces some fun stories…
I’ve been thinking about how plans change when you least expect them to. Today, Jordan, Zack, and I got up early (10:30 or so), ate a hearty breakfast (bowls of Cap’n Crunch), and went off to the mall to go see Defiance, that new movie we’ve been dying to see. Our plans…
Plan 1: Forget the parking garage and instead find a parking spot that we don’t have to pay through the nose for. Well, after a gazillion crazy Providence streets, a few hundred “one way” signs, a stampede of Rhode Island’s infamous maniac drivers, and an annoying detour (whew!), we ended up back at the parking garage with just a little bit less gas in the car and a little bit more frustration than we had when we started. I’m just glad I wasn’t the one driving!
Plan 2: Go see the movie!... okay, this is what we came for… sounds easy, right? Wrong! We get to the theatre, buy our overpriced-but-still-matinee-priced tickets, pass the concession stands with our eyes down and our wallets still (somewhat) intact, sit down, wait for the movie to begin, cheer when the previews start, and then (drumroll…) stare at a blank movie screen while Defiance’s audio plays clearly and its video FAILS EPICALLY. What’s the deal now?! I can hear the movie, but see nothing! Zack and I have both been waiting a while to see this movie, and now it’s getting ruined! OK, now… Jordan finds someone to fix it, but the movie is now about 10-15 minutes through and the guy says it’s impossible to start the movie over (*rolls eyes*). So we decide to leave and get our money back. There goes the movie… we’re pretty upset but laughing about it, too… why can’t things go right?!!
Plan 3: What can three single guys do at a mall besides not see a movie? Find three single girls, of course! lol… actually, they found us when we passed the food court and they followed us into Newbury Comics. But, being oh-so-confident in talk and completely unconfident in action, all chances were blown when the three of us turned away and walked to the "music DVD" section and the three of them realized we were doofuses (or is it doofii). Not to worry, as we passed them around 20 minutes later and any plans to talk to them were momentarily resuscitated then subsequently killed again when we realized talking to them would be a total creeper thing to do… sigh!

So now what? No free parking, no movie, no girls. We sat in the food court and laughed about how everything we wanted to do fell through and ended with us being pathetic. We also ate Taco Bell and wondered why we made that stupid lunch choice…
So was it a day wasted? I think not. I wouldn’t have had it any other way…

Until my next adventure,
Coburn