How Cool Is That?

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:19:49 +0000

I raced off to see Young Victoria the other night and was met at the Lido by a nice ticket attendant asking me if I was with the special event?

Hmm, what special event?

Guess not – we bought our tickets and found a seat in the nostalgic black light fish festival mural theater on the pennisula.

The preview came up and then suddenly shut down.

Another employee said they were experiencing technical difficulties… not unusual.

Then another “preview” came up and I noticed that the two people in it bore a huge resemblence to a man and woman who had entered the theater and sat four rows down in front of us. The longer it played the more I thought “wedding video” as it showed the blond gal doing lots of fun things with her handsome man all over the world.

Minutes later the film screen went to black and four wonderful words popped up on it, “Will You Marry Me”?

The lights came up in the theater and about fifty people in the balcony (yes, this theater is one of the last I know of with a balcony!) started shouting and whistling and throwing streamers. The bride-to-be was totally surprised and her fiance got down on his knee and proposed right then and there.

What did she say? – came the shouts from above.

Yes, Yes, Yes the bride responded, tears running down her face.

And then, Oh you poor people who just came to see the movie!, she added.

We didn’t mind and after the movie a couple of people announced with a laugh, Anyone else want to get married?, as they left the theater.