So this past weekend was interesting.  Stephanie’s big sister Emily and her husband Dustin came up from Florida to visit us.  We spent Saturday at Carowinds and nearly got into a fight!  We were in line for the Borg Assimilator (the newest ride==the longest line), and the ride broke down for the second time while we were in line, about three-fourths of the way through.  So we sat down on the ground (why bother standing when the line isn’t moving?).  A little while later three people walk up past us and stand in front of us.  We assume they are with the people in front of us and don’t really say anything.  But at some point it occurred to Dustin that these people didn’t know the people in front of them.  So asks “do you know them?”  They all just kinda shook their heads and Dustin says “Why don’t you guys go back where you came from.”  Well that did nothing, and then the girl (it was two guys and a girl) gets on her cell phone and starts talking about us very loudly.  She felt that passing us was justified because we “weren’t moving.”  Nevermind that the ride was broken down and the line wasn’t moving at all.  Apparently we are supposed to be pressed fully against the people in front of us.  Next Dustin gets in front of them and says “you guys weren’t moving” and then the girl shoves him pretty hard.  At this point Emily jumps out of line and runs up to the station and yells “We need security, there’s about to be a fight in the line!”  So a park employee guy comes and the girl tries to say they didn’t do anything, but everyone else that they passed spoke up and said that wasn’t true.  Then she tries to tell the guy how we weren’t moving so they had a right to pass us.  When given the option of going back to where they were in line or getting ejected from the park, they chose the former.  Afterwards they continued to talk about us loudly enough that we could still hear them.  She said Dustin was on her “hitlist”.  What was frightening was that they ended up on the same train as us.  But fortunately all they did was stare at us as we walked down the ramp after the ride.

In an unrelated topic, I saw the new Star Wars movie this weekend.  I borrowed episodes one and two from someone at work last week and watched them before seeing the movie, since I haven’t seen either since they were in the theaters.  I still thought episode one was completely terrible.  And I still thought episode two was pretty good.  And I was very impressed with episode three.  Judging solely by Maddox’s comments on the movie (don’t click if you haven’t seen it!), I think other people must have liked it too (I could look for reviews to see if that’s true but I don’t feel like doing that...).  He didn’t like it, but he also doesn’t like any of the Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings movies, and disliking stuff is kind of his thing so his opinion isn’t all that relevant.  The acting still wasn’t that great, and I think I know why:  it takes a better director than George Lucas to get people to act like they’re not in front of a blue screen when in fact they are.  I’ve seen Garden State so I know that Natalie Portman is a better actress than that.  Not that it involved blue screens.  I thought they did a good job with the story, especially given all the constraints that the script was under in order to be consistent with the other five movies.  Anakin’s path to the dark side seemed plausible enough to me.  I would discuss more but I won’t in case you haven’t seen it yet.

Oh yeah, today is June First.  Happy Gay Pride Month!