Well the theater might have been empty! I’m not sure cause I never made it inside.
The locale was supposed to be a 40 minute drive. Things started off on the wrong foot when we hit traffic. So the showing was called for 9:50, and time was ever so quickly slipping away. At 9:50 we were still stuck on the highway, plowing along. At 10:05 we get off onto the street that the theater is apparently right nearby, and as we should have expected, there was construction blocking the road we needed to get on to, so we missed it. It’s 10:20 by the time we found the street, and for some reason we thought it was 300 feet to the street we then had to go to, not the 1.3 miles we actually were meant to travel. Anyway, we drove around for a bit more, went into a McDonald’s to ask for directions. My friend driving misheard me and thought I said go straight when I said make a left, so we ended up on some random highway. We circled around a bit, and in 20 minutes we found ourselves back on the correct street. At around 11:10 we were finally at the theater, an hour and twenty minutes too late. The doors to the theater were locked, and so we knocked on them until a security guard came and answered. We explained the situation, how we had been traveling for 2 hours and hadn’t been able to find the damn place. He radioed up to management, who first responded that “Phish 3d isn’t showing now.” We explained we just wanted to catch the tail end of the show, just the last hour!! “That’s not going to be possible” he said, in a rather demeaning tone I might add, crushing our spirits. Well, we turned around to go, paused by the exit doors for a bit and considered going in through them when someone exited, descided against it when we saw cameras and left. Before getting back into the car, I took a piss on the theater, take that!!
Argh. I don’t think I’m going to get a chance to see Phish 3d, but at this point I don’t think it was meant to be.