I keep forgetting how much I hate people. I know that I hate people, but for some reason things kind of, I don't know, slow down now and again and people stop being flesh fodder and become human for a while. Then I manage to find myself in a large group of people again and realize how shitty the human race is, in general.

I went to see Serenity today, which was a damn good movie and I'll write more on it later. I decided to go a little early so the wife and I could get good seats. It kind of worked. Sadly, the best seats were in a row where there sat a gaggle of geeks to my left. No matter, I'll get three seats away, my right is clear, and we're all good.

Yes, and people will trust the New York Times again.

Quickly, three more geeks line up to my right and fill out the space. The last one almost sat on my right but when I said my wife was going to sit there he sat in the last seat on my left rather than, well, anywhere else. Big gaping space on my right, to the end of the row, and he takes my left-hand breathing room. To top it off he feels the need to sit there and jabber about crap for a good ten minutes while I wait on my wife to get a drink.

She gets there, finally, and I ask her very pointedly: "Is this a good spot? Do you want to move to the right, up, down, something else?" Normally she's good at picking these things up. Today? Nothing. "We're fine here, it's okay."

Around now the geeks start singing the Firefly intro song. Please, God, help...

So after some similar trials the movie starts. Halfway through I have trouble breathing and discover that someone decided that a crowded movie theater is the best place to shit in the wind. Twice. Thrice. Four times.

Around now some fucker down the row decides all the accidental bumps on his chair are intentional and throws his drink at the guy behind him, soaking everyone in a three-person radius and getting the rest of us with splash damage. When my wife told me the story afterwards I realize it was a good thing I wasn't in the wet radius because I would have seriously hurt the fucker for being that much of an asshole.

I mean, really, I just hate people. They all simply suck.