The Knights Who Say Geek Versus the X-Waitress

We did something different for geek night last evening. We met up at Arundel Mills Mall and saw the new X-Men flick, X2. Keith and I went right to mall from work so we had an hour and a half to kill before the others showed up and almost three hours before the film. So we walked the mall and stopped in at Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, EB World, KB Toys, Game Stop, Radio Shack and Ritz Camera. At Ritz I picked up a couple of filters. A circular polarizer, UV and a spot filter (that was a freebie as they were having a buy two get one free sale). I took a couple of photos at the mall, but haven’t downloaded them off of the camera yet. MM, MH and DA showed up at 7:30, we bought tickets at $8.75 each for the 8:50 show and then headed off to the Du Claw Brewing Company. Honestly this ended up being a more expensive evening than I was counting on. I already went out to lunch earlier with the co-workers for Kay’s birthday and dropped $8 on tacos, which gave me Montezuma’s Revenge about an hour later. Kay made a comment directed at me that she should of come to work in her birthday suit! I’m going to have to do something about this situation. I just don’t know what. Back to the mall. We go to the Du Claw Brewing Company (7:40) where it will cost me $12 for a beer and a cheeseburger. Neither was anything above the ordinary. The restaurant section is pretty empty, but the guys want to sit in the moderately crowded bar. Service is always the worst in the bar section of these places and Du Claw will be no different. Two waitresses can’t seem to decide which one of them will wait on us. This takes five minutes and is not a good sign. Once they decide it takes the waitress almost fifteen minutes (8:00) just to get our drink order and then another ten (8:10) to take the food order. Like I said the bar was moderately crowded, but note so crowded to warrant this sort of delay. The food we order, mostly a selection of appetizers, wouldn’t arrive for another thirty minutes (8:40). Fortunately MH asked the waitress to bring the check with the food and we paid immediately. Good thinking on his part. Okay so now we have ten-fifteen minutes to wolf down the food. All the while talking about how we are probably going to have diarrhea thirty minutes into the movie from having to rush. This discussion leads to the creation of a new X-man that we named, Mud Slide. I hate having to wolf my food and being rushed and then having the feeling that I’m not going to get a decent seat from which to watch the movie. I never know what kind of crowd to expect at the Egyptian Movico Theaters. Now I’m shoving a 10-ounce grease burger and a beer down my throat. It’s 8:50. Movie time. I know that there’s ten minutes of commercials and previews before the movie so we’re not going to miss any of the film, but there is still the concern of getting a good seat, which I feel is unlikely at this point. Keith rolls percentile dice (yes we did have dice on us) and says we have a 40% chance. Keith and I bolt to the theater ahead of the rest, who are still finishing their food. Our mission is to find seats and save em for the rest. We luck out and get seats about half way back and dead center. I am surprised, but delighted. Now my only worry is will I be churning some serious butt coffee during the movie as a result of wolfing down the grease burger. I use a little Zen breathing I learned and calm myself during the previews. Roll film already! X2 doesn’t waste anytime getting into the action and it has action in spades. I’m not going to go into specific details or spoil the film for those who haven’t seen it. Here are the basics. It starts with a teleporting mutant, Night Crawler (the coolest in the film), waging an attack on the President in the White House. This sets the stage for the rest of the movie that has the anti-mutant movement going full swing after the mutants with the intent to eradicate them. A demented mutant-hater tracks down our heroes with a vengeance. Multiple action sequences ensue. Bad guys get the upper hand. Kidnaps child mutants. Mutant heroes (and mutant baddies) discover bad guys’ evil plans, strike back and beat demented mutant-hater and his cronies in a series of fights. It’s a comic book movie and it’s done pretty well. It’s no Spider-Man though. Our average rating is a 3 out of 5. Fortunately none of the Knights Who Say Geek suffers any colon-rectal problems and all is well. The evening turns out all right and everybody heads home. I hit the sack and have comic book style dreams all night. Now I’m back at the SLJ. At least it’s hump day and the slide into Friday is on.

The above written in two parts. One before leaving for work and the other during the morning smoke break, on which I do not smoke.