I'd like to say how my night went in chronological order, but I feel what just happened needs the most spotlight.
If you know me, then you know my favorite pair of pants. I wear them all the time. They are brown, cut off at the bottom with a pair of scissors and I wear them almost every day, as soon as they get out of the dryer. Well I just went to scratch my leg and realized there was a GIANT hole in my pants. Good thing they didn't rip at work, or else that'd be hard to explain to the customers...
Bringing up work allows me to easily transcend into the rest of my evening.
To summarize the day before work quickly: I woke up early, ate breakfast, watched alot of movies on AMC, felt really exauhsted, used the computer, ate dinner, got ready for work, went to work.
ok now the fun part! I walk into work and do the normal routine, print out schedule, see who I'm working with, get ready for a long and boring night. For those of you who don't know, I work at a Sub-Run (this means we get movies after they normally leave the First-Run theaters) Theater. $3.99 gets you a Movie Ticket/Popcorn/Soda (both refillable). Anyway, my on manager Garret comes over and asks if Ryan (another manager) has explained to me about the projector in booth one. (In case you didn't know, I'm a Projectionist/Relief manager at said theater). Anyway, it seems our previous projector had a "melt down" the night before, and we were using this gypsy-rigged projector that had bungee cords tieing it down, cardboard covering the light coming out of the shutter and a fan we ripped from /another/ projector duct taped to the top of it.
Projectors get VERY hot, also the light that is emitted from them is so bright and powerful that if you leave film infront of the light without it moving (i.e. the film being played) it immediately starts to burn a hole right through the film. Well...guess what happened tonight?
It seems that the new projector wasn't "automatic" meaning if the film stops (or starts for that matter) the projector doesn't kick off/on. So you basically have to flip 2 switches instead of 1. Sounds easy right? Well it's not when the platter feeding the film isn't spinning fast enough, causing the film to eventually wrap up so tight it will tie itself in knots and break. So despite having someone sit there for the entire show to spin the platter, at one point the film stopped feeding, just sat there and began to smoke in the bright lights of movie fandom.
It was a crap ass night.
Oh, our cash register kept crashing, the ice machines weren't working right and at the end of the night the Concession Staff forgot to take the candy drawer into the back office (meaning we could of been out $100+ easy if someone stole it).
Oh and did I mention I ripped my FAVORITE PANTS RIGHT IN THE CROTCH AREA........ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Spell check is for wussies...
If you know me, then you know my favorite pair of pants. I wear them all the time. They are brown, cut off at the bottom with a pair of scissors and I wear them almost every day, as soon as they get out of the dryer. Well I just went to scratch my leg and realized there was a GIANT hole in my pants. Good thing they didn't rip at work, or else that'd be hard to explain to the customers...
Bringing up work allows me to easily transcend into the rest of my evening.
To summarize the day before work quickly: I woke up early, ate breakfast, watched alot of movies on AMC, felt really exauhsted, used the computer, ate dinner, got ready for work, went to work.
ok now the fun part! I walk into work and do the normal routine, print out schedule, see who I'm working with, get ready for a long and boring night. For those of you who don't know, I work at a Sub-Run (this means we get movies after they normally leave the First-Run theaters) Theater. $3.99 gets you a Movie Ticket/Popcorn/Soda (both refillable). Anyway, my on manager Garret comes over and asks if Ryan (another manager) has explained to me about the projector in booth one. (In case you didn't know, I'm a Projectionist/Relief manager at said theater). Anyway, it seems our previous projector had a "melt down" the night before, and we were using this gypsy-rigged projector that had bungee cords tieing it down, cardboard covering the light coming out of the shutter and a fan we ripped from /another/ projector duct taped to the top of it.
Projectors get VERY hot, also the light that is emitted from them is so bright and powerful that if you leave film infront of the light without it moving (i.e. the film being played) it immediately starts to burn a hole right through the film. Well...guess what happened tonight?
It seems that the new projector wasn't "automatic" meaning if the film stops (or starts for that matter) the projector doesn't kick off/on. So you basically have to flip 2 switches instead of 1. Sounds easy right? Well it's not when the platter feeding the film isn't spinning fast enough, causing the film to eventually wrap up so tight it will tie itself in knots and break. So despite having someone sit there for the entire show to spin the platter, at one point the film stopped feeding, just sat there and began to smoke in the bright lights of movie fandom.
It was a crap ass night.
Oh, our cash register kept crashing, the ice machines weren't working right and at the end of the night the Concession Staff forgot to take the candy drawer into the back office (meaning we could of been out $100+ easy if someone stole it).
Oh and did I mention I ripped my FAVORITE PANTS RIGHT IN THE CROTCH AREA........ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Spell check is for wussies...