L' impossibilità di passare una serata come la si era programmata non é sempre una brutta cosa

I have this friend from my High School who is the only one of my classmates I' m still in contact with, who asked me to go out with him to dig up the past together. Actually, we' ve been trying to see each other since before Christmas, but for a thing or another, we never managed to arrange a date. Anyway, after almost two months, we settled down for last friday. We wanted to go to a movie, and since I' m a big fan of Will Smith, I suggested "I Am Legend". He agreed, at first, but then someone informed him it was a horror, so he told me something on the line of "I' m afraid of vampires and zombies, I don' t want to go!"
... ... ... really, he sounded like a three years old brat. But since I' m pretty obliging, at least with my friends, I decided to pick up another movie. The thing is that there aren' t movies on air right now that interest me even a little! Besides the cartoons (the only one I want to see is "Alvin Superstar", if you can consider it a cartoon, but I promised another friend to see that with her), family tragedies of various kinds, italian movies (that I hate), and horror (that my friend hates), the choice was between "American Gangster", the last one with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, "National Treasure 2" and "Into The Wild". My first choice was "Into The Wild", but my friend, obviously, said it was boring, so nothing. He chose "American Gangster" and even if I' m sure it' s greatly done, and even if I love Denzel Washington and Russel Crow to no end, I can' t stand gangster movies. Seeing something about two old guys trying to feel alive during their last years wasn' t something we wanted to face, so it left "National Treasure ". It' s not like we loved the idea of spending the night looking at Nicolas Cage, but it was the only one neither of us hated, so we went for it!
We arrived at the theatre 20 minutes before the beginning of the movie, and... not only we found out that said movie wasn' t on air anymore (I blame my friend for this!), but we also noticed that there were at least 100 people waiting to buy a ticket: too many for us!
We' ve been stupid!
We thought that the most of the people were outside, but we didn' t consider the fact that it was cold and raining. As I said, we' re stupid!
Anyway, we ran away as fast as we could, and went to a pub to drink something! And I need to say that I enjoyed it a lot more than going to see a silly movie! Even if maybe he' s the only one I still talk with, we haven' t seen each other since last summer, so we had a lot of things to talk about, mainly his girlfriend and my ex-boyfriend (clearly an idiot!), our ex-classmates and our new classmates, our studies, our families and stuff. All the boring things you usually hate talking about unless you do it with someone you haven' t seen in a while. Plus, we had to give each other our Christmas gifts (a little late, I know), so I gave him a t-shirt with a sentence in our local dialect (I hate them, he loves them), and he gave me a book that, regrettably, I already have. I' m lucky he can change it, but I' ve been happy in seeing that he knows me enough to take me something I like that much! He' s good in books, he already gave me one a couple of years ago that I love, but he' s bad in buying dvds... definitely! The only one he bought for me was something with Winona Rider (ugh!): I' m afraid my disgusted face betrayed me when he gave it to me. Of course I thanked him and told him I appreciated it, but I guess he realized it' s not really my favorite actress, nor my favorite kind of movie.
Oh, well, it was a gift from a friend and... it' s the thought that counts, right?