Went and saw "ROTK(Return of the King)":http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/trilogy/ last night. The movie was wonderful, of course, as all the "critics(ROTK reviews on RottenTomatoes)":http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheLordoftheRingsTheReturnoftheKing-1127213/ and "fans(ROTK thread on ShackNews)":http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=29734 are saying. Saw three interesting things before the movie, however: * Went to "Panera":http://www.panerabread.com/ for soup and a sandwich before the movie. After I order my sandwich, the girl tells me they're out of rosemary & onion focaccia. No problem, I'll just take asiago cheese bread. Nope, sorry... don't have that either. Alright fine.. just the plain focaccia then. A blank look and a shrug from the girl. At this point I nearly leaned over the counter to start shaking her, "Well, what do you have then?" Sheesh... I know that working there isn't a career or anything, but grow a brain, huh?

* Also at Panera just as I was leaving a guy walked in with a group of his friends. He seemed a trifle confused, because he was wearing a "trucker hat(Making your own trucker hat @ Gawker)":http://www.gawker.com/archives/007250.php, but had it turned "sort of askew":http://www.mrquick.net/blogger/2003_03_23_blogarchive.htm#91268225, the way dumb white boys that "want to be badass(UrbanDictionary definition of 'whigger')":http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whigger will wear a baseball hat.

* While on line to get into the theatre, I had a bet going with the SLF that we would see between 0 and 10 people wearing some sort of LOTR outfit (she said between 10 and 20), be it a "whole outfit thing":http://www.all-movie-toys.com/item/LOTRRUARDASET, or just a trinket like "the Arwen jewel":http://www.all-movie-toys.com/item/LOTRNBPENDAW. Only actually saw one girl wearing "a leaf brooch":http://www.all-movie-toys.com/item/LOTRNBEB, but also saw a guy wearing a straightjacket. That's the way to meet girls, for sure. "Hey, ladies... I'm dependable and reliable... well-rounded and I call my mom every week." Um, no.