Today I got served.

So what happened to me today? Well, I checked my email, and noticed some messages for free advance movie passes. I hadn't gotten them for a while. Today I had three messages about them, two were about Rescue Dawn, and one was for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. They were both playing at the same time tonight. On top of seeing a movie in advance for free, it would be my movie for the day. Not bad.

Hmm...should I choose this:

Or this?

So I was talking to my friend Vish on AIM, and I was like "Yo, wanna see Rescue Dawn tonight because it's free" and he's like "Yeah". The show was for 7 pm. But it takes Vish an hour to get here due to traffic, so we go to the Metro at around 6:45. The movie is playing at the U.S. Navy Memorial.

We arrive at the memorial at 7:01. This was a "first come first served thing", so we were like "What the hell...what if we don't get in?! We paid for Metro tickets to go to a movie that we might not get to see?!"

Anyway the building is 701 Pennsylvania Ave. We find it, and the doors are fuckin locked. We walk around the block checking every entrance. Locked. Wander into an apartment complex that's part of the building and the receptionist is like "The Naval Memorial is around the corner". We go around the corner. It's locked. We wander back into the apartment complex. She's like "What the...are you on a scavenger hunt?"

After that, we ran into two other dudes who were talking to a guy for directions. They were also trying to get into this screening. They had no luck either and had been looking longer than us, but one of them heard that it was canceled. After we all walk around the block, those guys go back on the Metro, while we walk around, and go back to an entrance that we already tried. It had a number on the side that said "For after hours access call ..." I did that, and there was a voice that said: "The number you have dialed has changed. Here is the new number..." AAARG. Anyway that new number leads to an answering machine. Well behind us is the same guy that helped the two random guys. He leads us to the right place after we have a few minutes of confused conversation. We finally find the right door to the building, tucked away in a corner. That's locked too.

We're like "What the fuck" and leave. While on the Metro, I had a suspicion about those emails.

When we got home, I excused myself and re-checked the email. I was wondering, "why did I get TWO emails about Rescue Dawn?" I figured that they do that sometimes, no big deal. But that suspicion that I had was lingering...

Here is what the first email said:

But here's the second email which I did not check:

Looks like I FORGOT TO READ THAT! It wasn't an extra ticket email, it was a "If you don't read this you will be fucked" email. Yeah I'm an idiot.