Mike King

Serendipity

June 25, 2006 on 12:10 pm | In Life in General | Comments Off

My wife and I went out on Friday night to take advantage of her parents’ visit and the built-in babysitting factor.

It was a totally unplanned night. We decided to go to Pasadena and take a random walk to see what might catch our eye. While walking around, we decided upon a Nepali/Himalayan restaurant for dinner. And on the way there, we saw there was supposed to be a Who cover band playing at a pub.

Perfect! we thought. Dinner and then some cool music.

Dinner went great. We finished up a few minutes before 9pm and then headed for the pub. Hmm, not much of a line. But then, we were a little late getting there and they’d probably already let everybody in. Ok. Get carded, pay our cover charge. Go upstairs. Uh, where’s the band?

Not to mention me and my wife do not fit in with the locals at all. We: nerdy, middle aged parents. They: twenty-something trendy hipsters.

Do we stay or do we go? Hope the band shows up? Maybe we’re in the wrong part of the pub?

Oh, look. The band cancelled. Next show: 11pm tribute to Kiss. No, thanks. Goodbye cover charge.

Feeling like total idiots, we head east towards our nerdy failsafe: Barnes and Noble. On the way there, I catch sight of a sign we hadn’t noticed before. Here was 1 Colorado and a movie theater. Maybe we could still catch something. We check out the box office, nothing started for another hour. And then we notice a handwritten sign. Serenity charity screening tickets on sale inside the lobby. Show starts at 10pm. We look around and finally notice the Blue Sun t-shirts and the pom-pom hats. Folks dressed for a real shindig. Ah, our kind of people.

We go inside and buy the last two tickets for the show. Shiny.