Let down lane

Today I hung out with a new friend. Well, we’ve known each other, sort of, but never hung out before. And it was actually a lot of fun, however everything we ended up doing compiled to one giant let down.
And here is how it went:
He picked me up, we head for booster juice. I was completely stoked as it had been forever since I’d had a ‘boost’. We got our drinks and went to sit down. I took my first sip and all I could taste was powder. It looked like there should be some sort of fruit flavor to it, and as the description read, it was assembled with fruit; but this thing tasted disgusting. His was apparently pretty awful too. (Note: never go to a booster juice inside a gym, they load it with too much work out enhancers). I mean, do I really look like the type of person whose on their way to bench 300lbs? even if I do, who really needs that much powder in their drink that you can't even taste any type of fruit?! So anyways, while sitting in the gym area, unimpressed with our wet masses of powder, we see Kristina and Adam headed for the movies (which is in the same plaza). Since it is Tuesday and movies are $5, we figure maybe it’s a good idea to go check out what is playing since we really had nothing planed. So we get there, decide to see the hangover, buy our tickets and then realize we still have 30min to kill. We thought it would be a good idea to go on a hunt for a dollar store to purchase some wicked bingo dabbers, as we are going to play bingo on Friday. So we find the dollar store, find the bingo dabbers, and find they are nothing special. Fair enough, it’s a dollar store, what more can you hope for? (Accept we were hoping for some retro awesome cool looking dabbers, but whatever) So we decide to load up on candy for the movie instead. When we get to the cash out there is a man stuck in front of us whose debit won’t work, we have to wait behind this guy, buying way too much from a dollar store in the first place, for 5 min. finally we get our stuff and race back to the theatre to make the movie. When we get to the parking lot, it is packed like a dairy queen on a hot summer day. So we drive and find a spot pretty far away, but no big deal, it was nice out, the walk was fine. However as we were walking to the theatre we see all these people walking away. Then we see two people that we know, they inform us that the movie had been oversold and there was not one seat left in the theatre. So we had to walk all the way to the theatre to get refunds for our previously purchased tickets. Then walk all the way back to the car. Then since we had nothing to do we went to Starbucks so I could indulge in an overpriced hot beverage. It wasn’t the best I’ve had but it was good enough. I let my friend try it and he was appalled. His taste buds were not down. I then had to explain that ‘yes I do quite enjoy the taste of this beverage’ but he just didn’t understand. We then sat in Starbucks chatting for maybe a good 30 min before deciding to head out and go watch a movie back at his house instead of the theatre. While on the way back, the sun was pretty, the weather was great and he had this amazing idea to just drive to Toronto and hang for a bit. Since we were beside the highway, we decided ‘why not? Toronto is always a good time.’ but then he realized he needed gas first, so we went in search of the nearest gas station. When we got to the gas station he then decided that he didn’t want to make the drive anymore, he likes to do things spontaneously, too much time had passed and he was no longer in the mood to drive that far. So again, not a big deal, we don’t have to go to Toronto (we’re just going another day), so we’re headed on our way back home again. When we get close to home I then decide it’s probably not such a good night to watch a movie because of the mountains of homework I must complete in a very short period of time.
SO:
Booster juice (our only planed task of the evening) was a let down
Bingo dabbers were a let down
Not being able to see the hangover… let down
Starbucks… (more so for him) but I’ve also had better; let down
He cancelled Toronto; let down
I cancelled the movie watching; let down.
Over all it was actually a pretty solid hang out, I think we both had a pretty good time.
I’m stoked for summer which is just around the corner, and we can tackle our list of let downs then.

Fact of the day: repetition was never my friend.