I would have called Uber even if the weather hadn't been windy, cloudy, and damp this morning. I intended to hit the movies later. The Uber driver arrived in 8 minutes. Thankfully, there was no traffic, allowing me to arrive at work just in time.
To tell the truth, I could have been infinitely late. We were pretty dead the whole morning. They didn't even need the head bagger in the register this time. I spent almost the entire morning pushing carts, and there wasn't that much to do until the last hour. Even that could have been worse. I was in and out with no trouble whatsoever.
Soon as I finished, I changed into a regular shirt and grabbed a few things I wanted at the Acme. Got a snack pack with cheddar chunks, grapes, crackers, and chicken salad to eat at the movie theater for lunch. The Propel and small bag of popcorn was for later in the movie. Also picked up two boxes of Kind Kids' Granola Bars that were on clearance and sugar cookies I found at the bakery clearance rack.
Called Uber after I finished. The driver arrived in less than the 7 minutes the app said they would. Once again, there was no traffic, not even in Haddon Heights or around the shopping center in Lawnside. It was a little over 10 minutes when the driver pulled up in front of the Cinemark.
There was no way I was going to miss Wicked: For Good! I came with ten minutes to spare before the 1:50 showing. Cinemark has a new ticket purchase system. It's experimenting with contact-less ticket purchases that look more like buying them online. I don't know if it's better, but I did get my ticket and one of the last seats in a full showing.
Frankly, most of the commercials were for romantic comedies and action films that just don't interest me that much. I may check out the Christian animated musical David when it comes out on streaming, and I absolutely must see The Super Mario Galaxy Movie after I enjoyed the first one so much. It'll even be out right before my birthday in April. I don't give a fig about the Avatar films. I wasn't a fan of the first one and still haven't bothered with the second. The first one was pretty, but overly complicated and kind of boring.
I go further into the main feature Wicked: For Good at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
(Oh, and my Shark watch died in the middle of the movie. I ordered a new Timex one with a fabric strap that was on a good Black Friday sale from Amazon.)
The sun was going down, even as I left the theater. It was too late to linger anywhere. I strolled past the Wal Mart to the White Horse Pike to wait for the bus home. It was probably about 20 minutes late, not bad for rush hour on the White Horse Pike. I watched a lovely pink sunset as the bus runbled down the highway. It pulled into Oaklyn about 15 minutes later.
Worked on my Wicked: For Good review for an hour while listening to another one of my new K-Tel collections. Starlite is very much an album from 1983. We have heartfelt ballads like "On the Wings of Love" from Jeffery Osbourne and "Eye In the Sky" by The Alan Parsons Project, one of Elton John's best ballads in "Blue Eyes," and the dance number "Steppin' Out" from Joe Jackson. "Wasted On the Way" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash, "You Can Do Magic" by America, and "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard On Me" by Juice Newton get a little more into the country aesthetic.
Finished the night with today's Match Game marathon. Suave character actor Greg Morris was just coming off the run of Mission: Impossible when he first turned up on the show in early 1974. In fact, only Richard Dawson was more suave than this cool cat. He was laid-back enough to not only handle a racial comment from Gene Rayburn well in an episode from 1975 (that got this episode banned from the airwaves), but toss it right back at him. He was around to see squeaky-voiced Marlena lose her shoe when she ran to embrace Morey Amsterdam in 1974 and Richard's hand be crushed by a very strong contestant in 1976.
Greg appeared on the show sporadically through 1978. Half of his last week on the show was lost until very recently. They were on the same tapes as the week with Valerie Bertanelli's episodes, and she wouldn't let them be seen until 2023. We can now see how wild that week got, especially Greg turning up in the beginning in oversized lime-green sunglasses.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to play along with the tech man of Mission: Impossible and Vega$!
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