The Dumbass Genius loves honking his horn. Not a friendly toot of the horn to let someone know he is there, but a long, ear shattering, curse ridden honking of the horn. In a 30 minute drive on Saturday, he leaned on his horn at least 7 times, including one blast that lasted 10 seconds and included the yelling at the top of his lungs in slow motion two bad words through our car window into the offending car's open window. I was too devastated to notice but I guess the other car's windows were actually open and the car was occupied by two young women. Fun!
I hate when the horn is used to this extreme. I'm all in favor of honking the horn if a car is going to run into me or literally doesn't move at a stop light, but the husband thinks it's important for him to honk to wake up the sleepy drivers and get the distracted drivers to pay better attention to the road. I just find the abuse of the horn both obnoxious and annoying because in our/his case the acts includes swearing, yelling and gesturing to accompany the honking.
We were on our way to a 2pm movie screening. I asked to leave the house at 1:20pm, but the DA Genius wanted to leave at 1:30pm which would "give us plenty of time and when have you seen that theater fill up anyway? It seats 1000 people." (which it does not). The DA Genius arrived back from the gym at 1:29pm so the 1:20pm time I suggested was ignored. No excuse or apology for being later than I suggested, it just was what it was. We left the house at 1:32pm with the Genius driving the xx amount of miles over the hill to the screening room. Traffic was not slow or easy Saturday afternoon, it was normal L.A. traffic. We turned the corner onto Wilshire Blvd. at 1:56pm with a few hundred yards left to go before we reached the theater.
Free parking is usually very tough on the street by this theater, so we both agreed to pay $5 and park in the specific lot because of the tight time. We got to our seats at exactly 2pm per my IPhone. The show began at 2:02pm. (which is normal. They start the movies 2 minutes late.)
While waiting the less than 2 minutes for the movie to begin, The DA Genius had an odd look on his face and was staring at his fingernails. I asked what was going on and he said he was having heart palpitations and that he "didn't want to hurt my feelings but..." I assumed that he was implying that it was pretty much because of me that his heart hurt because I was stressing him out about getting to the movie on time.
Imagine how much nicer it would have been for both of us if we indeed left the house at 1:20pm. We'd have had maybe 7 minutes to park, walk, sit , relax, talk, pee, etc. before the movie started and maybe there wouldn't have been so much honking.
A few weekends before we went to another movie. Although this example doesn't involve honking, it does involve timing.This movie started at 7pm and was less than 4 miles from our house. We left for the movie with 23 minutes to spare. Parking around that theater is also terrible so we parked at the YMCA and walked the 3 or so long blocks to the theater. We had about 10 minutes to walk before the movie began.
We arrived in our seats just as the lights dimmed and the curtain opened. I had no time to get to the bathroom (which I needed) nor even put my purse down before the opening sequence. It was lucky we walked at the pace we did or we would have been shut out of the movie (they don't allow late comers). A friend was in the same theater and said she saw us slink in 5 seconds before the movie started and thought we were working undercover because of our precise timing. She was stunned we planned this so well. I was not so excited about this tight timing.
Growing up with a mother who questioned "what took you so long?" if I'm 5 minutes late, I've learned to be early and just relax. I'm fine just waiting. I have a book with me wherever and I'm good to go.
Getting somewhere early usually doesn't involve honking and stress and all the negatives that go with being late. Just think how much fun I could have with the Dumbass Genius if we had 4 extra minutes of down time!
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