Transformers Premiere & The Kid Who Wouldn't Shut Up.

The night was bound to be perfect.

I’ve been in Michigan for about 10 days now and two of my good friends, Greg & Rhen, were going to the midnight premiere showing of Transformers. Excited, I bought the three of us tickets two days in advance while they were at work. For 48 hours we talked about going to the premiere and how great it was going to be. The show didn’t start until 12:05am, but we knew we wanted to get there early. Arriving to the theatre at about 9:30pm, we checked to see how long the line to get in was. After making sure we were in the right area, and seeing that nobody was there yet, we decided to go to Buffalo Wild Wings for a quick dinner before heading back over to the theatre to wait. Once we got in line, we would take turns going and getting sodas, using the restroom, etc.

After spending only 30 minutes at BWW, we went back to the theatre to find about 30-50 people had lined up. What a difference 30 minutes made!

So we were standing in line talking, texting, slurping our slushies, and unexpectedly at 11pm, they allowed us to go sit in the theatre. We were so excited! That made the night even better – or so we thought.

Obviously, there was a good amount of high school kids in the theatre, and that’s to be expected. But when you have to sit in a crammed theatre with 400 of them, and no movie for at least an hour, it gets annoying. I genuinely thought I was going to have to hold Greg & Rhen back several times.

And then, a voice rang through the crowd. And I cringed. And then it was my turn to want to smack up some teenagers.
“Aw, dude! I can so kick your *expletive* at poker. I’m the best. I could go on WPT and kick any of those Mofo’s *expletive’s*.”

After realizing the kid wasn’t addressing me, and was just talking to his friends, I sat back and listened. It was so annoying to hear him misspeak constantly about the game.
“I had this straight one time, you know? Dude – so awesome. This guy had a flush, right? Thinking he had a great hand and I lay down my straight and totally took all his money.”

What?

“Oh, man! It was SO cool, I was working on a full house, but realized I had a flush, and I beat another guy who had a full house better than me.”

Huh?

“Yeah, the WPT offered me a spot at a table to be one of the youngest players of all time. So cool! But my mom wouldn’t let me. I could have punched that *expletive*.”

O.M.G.

I think the worst part was that his friends seemed to believe it. It’s sad to me that there’s a generation out there that WANTS to play poker, but doesn’t even know what hand is better than another. At some point, Rhen and I started taking pictures of each other, and that allowed me to stop paying attention to the kid who didn’t know poker.

It was torture to listen to the kid rant about something he knew nothing about. At least he shut up once the movie started. And yes, the movie was awesome!