Last night, Dad and I went to see a movie. We were supposed to be seeing The Age of Adaline... but we ended up watching the Avengers instead. Now before you stop reading and scroll to the next post, let me explain. This is NOT just your boring, average, "No Maddie I'm not going to some shitty romance movie with you" story- not at all- even though by the time we arrived at the theater, it could have just as easily been that too.
First and foremost, it should be said that my Dad HATES romance movies in general. So, when I asked him if we could go see this movie, he grumbled a bit about it but said "He didn't care" and that he'd go see it with me (being the good dad that he is). We found a 9:15 showing in Keene, since Gardner (a town with a theater closer to us) only had a 7:00 showing and Dad had some work to finish up. We left at 8:00 so that we'd have plenty of time to get there, get food, and sit down. Everything was going smoothly until we got about 5 minutes away from the theater. We were driving along normally when suddenly, the car made a weird thunking noise and started to slow down. Dad got us into a brake lane and put on our hazard lights, trying to start the car up again. No luck. Thankfully, Dad figured out what was wrong with the car in about 2 seconds. Our car's fuel gauge is broken, so we have to calculate when we are going to run out of gas by counting miles. When Dad checked the meter, we had 308 miles on the meter... we usually try to fill the tank when it hits about 250 miles to be on the safe side. Luckily we had broken down maybe 1/4 mile from a gas station, so Dad walked back and got us enough gas to make it back to the gas station. We filled up, and continued to the theater. However, by this time it was 9:20 and since we had missed the beginning of the Age of Adaline, I sucked it up and told Dad we'd just watch the Avengers instead. It ended up being a good movie anyway, so I was happy. Moral of the story? Always check your gas before leaving to go somewhere. Maddie
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