Yeah, I was just running out of ideas, to be honest. Blog Challenge Day 2

Thank you random blog generator, you pillock.

So, in the course of trying to make this blog challenge include only topics that suited me I had to use a couple of topic generators and "Going to the movie alone" would not stop coming up and it brought to mind a time when I'd had to go to see film without someone I was looking forward to spending some time with. It's a bollocks topic and what I'm about to write doesn't actually come under this topic but meh, what are you gonna do?

So, gather round all ye to hear the tale of the time I went to see a movie "alone", with one other person.

You know when you get caught in the gravity of someone else's invitation to an event? You know, when you're stood there as your friend is invited to a party or night out by someone else and then it's kind of awkward so you get invited too? Yeah, well when there is a party of three going somewhere and two of those people merely got caught in the gravity of one of the other's invitation, you get some sort of invitational black hole and the entire event matrix breaks down, making one person disappear.

Excuse the nerdgasm, what I mean is, I was only invited to go watch a film because I was sat right next to two of my friends arranging a trip to the cinema, but then I ended up in charge of organising it and in truth I only really cared about going with one of them, so I'd been caught in the gravity of the other person's invite and they were caught in the gravity of me wanting to spend some time with the third person.

You see where this is going... the third person dropped out for some unknown reason and I ended up going to watch a film with someone who, whilst a friend, and a good one too, was not the target of this excursion. To make matters worse, I have a sneaking suspicion they may have seen this as a semi-date.

On a related note: how shit of a date is going to watch a film? It's become a staple of the couples scene but I don't quite get what's so romantic about me saying: "hey, let's go and sit in a darkened room where we can't see or speak to each other on really uncomfortable chairs, surrounded by sweaty strangers." It has been pointed out to me that the darkness offers an opportunity for smooching. I would counter this by pointing out that choosing a darkened setting for such intimacy does rather suggest you'd rather not see your date's face.

So, maybe going alone isn't such a bad thing, just make sure you go alone on your own and not with a friend.