Friday, September 26, 2008

One of those days!

I know this is a silly question, because I know the answer before I ask. Have you ever had one of those days? From the moment I woke up there was something not right about the day. Let me give you a recap:
I woke up and David, who usually beats me out of bed, stayed in bed because he was not feeling well. This was my first sign.
Then, because of a special event with Mia's school today there was trasportation issues that caused me to be 15 minutes late to work.
I am a helper in Joshua's preschool and things were rough today. Joshua really struggles with objectives like letter and number recognition. Today at a table center, the main teacher was pointing at letters in the alphabet and asking Joshua to tell her what they were. As a mom I saw him getting more and more frustrated, but I had on my teacher hat and felt like I should not interfere. Finally that was over and it was time for Bible time on the rug. During this time Josh was not listening to the story and was being a little disruptive. After two warnings I had to place him in 'time out' which went over like a lead balloon. For the rest of the morning I consolled myself with the thought that David and I were going to see the movie "Fireproof" that evening-a movie that I had been looking forward to for months.
On the way home David called me on my cell and said, "You are not going to believe this, the Topeka theaters are not playing the movie." My response, "WELL THAT'S JUST GREAT!"
When I got home I called the theater to ask why. Of course the manager passed the buck and told me to contact the corporate office. I contacted the corporate office and spoke to a very kind woman who told me that they wanted to run the movie in larger metro areas. To that I said,"OK, thank you" and hung up. Then I got to thinking about what she said and thought, that doesn't sound right. I then got on the Fireproof website and looked up the theaters that it was showing in coast to coast. Then I got on the movie theater website and ran a list of all of their theaters and their locations. After all of this I compared the two. My findings were that of all the 48 theaters that this company owns, only 6 of their theaters ran the movie. Now I definetly felt blown off. So I called the office once more hoping to get the nice lady again, but I didn't. I got some guy named Dave. At first the conversation went well, but after he too was telling me reasons that did not add up I said, "I hope you don't mind, but I think that I will check the information that you are giving me." To that he hit the roof and the conversation took a direct nose dive. To make a long story longer, I never got a real answer to my question, just a lot of misinformation. After telling David all of this, he wonders if there might me some censorship going on. Tomorrow I think we will email AFA (American Family Association) and tell them about my day and get their take on it. If anyone can answer my question they probably could.
So my answer to a day like this? Go on a date with my husband to our favorite Mexican restaurant, have a margarita and forget about the day.
I know the doctor says, "An apple a day...", but sometimes a drink helps, too.

Have a Great Day
Jenny

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jenny!!! That totally bites about Fireproof not being in Topeka...I know you won't like this, but the town I live in here in AZ is way smaller than Topeka and we have it here (I'm going tomorrow!). And you are totally write...forget the apple, give me the drink!!! And I have those days all the time :)...hope tomorrow is better!! ~Mandy V.