Not Meant To Be

You know sometimes when you are in the middle of something and you get the feeling that, "it's just not meant to be." Well, I had that feeling several times this afternoon, but as always, I pressed on to see if it was true. It was.

Last night we asked our neighbors if they wanted to go to a movie with us tonight. They had relatives in town and couldn't go until next week. We opted to go anyway and it was a bad decision. The main reason we wanted to go today is because our cellphone company has a 2-for-1 program at the theater on M & Th's. You must text message the company to get a special code that is required by the cinema. On the way, we texted several times but never received our code. We knew we were going to be pushed for time, and possibly miss the best part; the Previews. So we rushed to the counter and asked the lady to help us. After several more failed attempts to get the code, she told us the tricky (and new) fact that we had to have over 100 prepaid minutes on our phone; we only had 88. So, we ran to find a Turkcell store and up our minutes. Granted, it may have been easier, faster and cheaper if we had just bought 2 tickets and not worried about the "deal", but we were determined. After reloading the phone, we raced back, bought the tickets, stopped to buy a Coke and M&M's; only to find out they cost more than the movie ticket itself. No go on the M&M's. Finally, sitting in our seats, we caught the last preview before the movie started. We made it five minutes into the movie, when everything went dark. And the inside of a movie theater is very dark. Turns out the power in the entire mall went out and after waiting in the pitch-black for 15 minutes, they informed us they would not be restarting the movie. Remarkably, we got a rain check and will try again another day. On our way home we realized that we might have been waiting for hours as power to half the city was out.