There seems to be no cure for it - I'm still an Eejit.
Back at the start of the year, I purchased a theatre ticket. Nothing strange about that, except that the show wasn't until this month, November. The ticket was for a performance of the musical 'Witches of Eastwick' starring Marti Pellow. You remember him, lead singer of Wet Wet Wet - spent about six and a half years at number one with 'Love is All Around' back in the 90's. Anyway, I bought the ticket so early because advance bookings at that time got a 20% discount.
Last month, As I was setting the work rota for myself and my team, I made sure I gave myself the theatre night off, and an extra day next to it. All going well so far.
So I have Wednesday and Thursday off. Wednesday is set to be a lazy day, get some sleep, do some washing, possibly clean the kitchen. Thursday will be a lie in, possibly a trip into town then theatre in the evening. With me so far?
Well Wednesday almost went as planned. I got some rest, watched a couple of new DVDs, didn't get round to cleaning the kitchen but I did get all my laundry done.
Thursday, I slept in til about 10am. I got up, and before getting dressed I checked what time the theatre doors opened. 7pm for a 7.30pm curtain up. Good timing.....hang on....
....The ticket was for last night, the Wednesday. When I set my rota I had given myself the extra day off after the show, probably telling myself I could have a few drinks post-performance. At some point between setting my off days and yesterday I had convinced myself it was the opposite and my extra day off was before the play. It was now Thursday morning, I have a useless theatre ticket, and despite buying a ticket months in advance I am going to miss 'The Witches of Eastwick'.
This isn't the first time I've missed something at The Mayflower here in Southampton. By my reckoning I have bought tickets to 6 shows, and only attended 3. What an appalling record! In my 11 years in The Isle of Man I must have seen 30 or 40 shows at The Gaiety, and I don't recall missing a single one. The first one I missed here was 'The Wizard of Oz' (because I fell asleep), although I did buy new tickets for that one. The second was 'French and Saunders Live' which I am gutted I missed, but at the time I was very low and didn't want to leave my flat.
I am definately going to buy a ticket for the Monty Python musical 'Spamalot' which is on next year....
....I may need to get people to send me alarm calls on the day!
Back at the start of the year, I purchased a theatre ticket. Nothing strange about that, except that the show wasn't until this month, November. The ticket was for a performance of the musical 'Witches of Eastwick' starring Marti Pellow. You remember him, lead singer of Wet Wet Wet - spent about six and a half years at number one with 'Love is All Around' back in the 90's. Anyway, I bought the ticket so early because advance bookings at that time got a 20% discount.
Last month, As I was setting the work rota for myself and my team, I made sure I gave myself the theatre night off, and an extra day next to it. All going well so far.
So I have Wednesday and Thursday off. Wednesday is set to be a lazy day, get some sleep, do some washing, possibly clean the kitchen. Thursday will be a lie in, possibly a trip into town then theatre in the evening. With me so far?
Well Wednesday almost went as planned. I got some rest, watched a couple of new DVDs, didn't get round to cleaning the kitchen but I did get all my laundry done.
Thursday, I slept in til about 10am. I got up, and before getting dressed I checked what time the theatre doors opened. 7pm for a 7.30pm curtain up. Good timing.....hang on....
....The ticket was for last night, the Wednesday. When I set my rota I had given myself the extra day off after the show, probably telling myself I could have a few drinks post-performance. At some point between setting my off days and yesterday I had convinced myself it was the opposite and my extra day off was before the play. It was now Thursday morning, I have a useless theatre ticket, and despite buying a ticket months in advance I am going to miss 'The Witches of Eastwick'.
This isn't the first time I've missed something at The Mayflower here in Southampton. By my reckoning I have bought tickets to 6 shows, and only attended 3. What an appalling record! In my 11 years in The Isle of Man I must have seen 30 or 40 shows at The Gaiety, and I don't recall missing a single one. The first one I missed here was 'The Wizard of Oz' (because I fell asleep), although I did buy new tickets for that one. The second was 'French and Saunders Live' which I am gutted I missed, but at the time I was very low and didn't want to leave my flat.
I am definately going to buy a ticket for the Monty Python musical 'Spamalot' which is on next year....
....I may need to get people to send me alarm calls on the day!
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