Wednesday, October 21, 2009

57 tickets

It's that time of the year again - the annual movie festival of Vienna is about to start. The Viennale. Last year i missed the day they started selling tickets. And they're usually sold out quite fast. So this year, me and some friends who also wanted to go went there on the first day.
Knowing that there'd be an ridiculously large crowd waiting in the morning and that buying through the web would be almost impossible on the first day, we met in front of one of the tickets shops in the afternoon last Saturday. And guess what, it was impossible to get tickets.
Felt like the organisers of Viennale thought that this year, for some unknown reason, there'd be much less people to buy tickets on the first day. All their servers broke down and they couldn't sell any tickets in hours. Well, anyways, i agreed with my friends to meet on Sunday morning, some time before the ticket store would open.

And so we did. Got there early, just to wait one and a half hours. And when we finally were first in line, just before getting to buy our tickets, they starting giving out numbers. Well, at least we got number one, pointless as it was, though :-) and then we got to the counter and bought 57 - in words: fifty-seven - tickets. I have never ever bought so many movie tickets at once. Hehe. And i can definitely recommend queueing up with friends. A social and quite fun experience.

Looking forward to a lot of great movies in the next two weeks, with a bunch of good friends.
Cheers!

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