My SO needs to educate his associates better

[tiggymalvern]

We just went to the (very nice indeed) seasonal dinner of local geeks. At the dinner, while talking about films, I bemoaned the fact that this afternoon we turned up at 1.05pm to see the 1.30 showing of Brokeback Mountain, and found a queue all around the corner and didn't get in ::sniff::

Geek 1: Which movie's that?
Geek 2: Oh, that's the gay cowboy movie.
Geek 1: Why would you want to go and see that?
Me: Well, let me see now....

How long has this geek spent prowling around the internet for bizarre things? And he's managed not to fall over slash? 0_0

The evening would have been better if we hadn't found a parking ticket on the car when we got back. We paid, dammit! We put our money in the box for our stall number! Go screw yourselves for your parking fine, bitches!

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Receipt? What is this thing you speak of? That would imply there was some sort of high-tech system. Roughly half the car parks in Seattle have a hole you push money into.

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought maybe it was one of the new hitech meters where you have to use a card of some sort and then get a receipt in return. Sorry, guess you're screwed, then! :-P

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

In some ways, Seattle has a reputation as a very high tech city, and in others, it's laughable! But then I never came across a car parking system that didn't involve receipts in the UK at all, so I don't know how widespread it is in the States.

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

I hear the system is slowly spreading across the US (make that *very* slowly)... but the last time I saw such a parking system, it was in Toronto this summer. So yeah, quite the ways to go!