I went to the Transformers movie last night. Good show, if you're asking for my opinion. Lots of action and very entertaining. Probably a little too heavy on GM product placement but I'll forgive that because the Camaro looked cool.

But what's the deal with Galaxy theatres? They have 12 theatres playing all the summer blockbusters, including the Transformers and Harry Potter. They have 12 theatres but 4 concession staff. How does that add up?

The whole staff minimalization thing is grossly apparent at that theatre. It starts when you walk through the door and there are more self serve kiosks for securing your movie ticket than there are live humans that can sell you admittance. That's pretty weak, if you're asking my opinion.

But what really frosts my tomatoes is the food service problem they have at that facility. I would like to throttle the architect that designed the concave counter design for the food service aisles. Not unpredictably you get all the lines converging at the center of a circle to the point that no one knows which line to get into because the whole thing is a giant cluster-bomb.

That really is the least of your worries though. You might as well just take a seat at very quaint arcade games in the corner and reconcile yourself with the fact that you're gonna miss the opening of your movie. There is no way those 4 sixteen year old are going to be able to process even a minor factor of the sum of people milling about in general confusion in the circle design in the floor.

Greg and I had nothing left to do last night so, failing a better plan we just went to the theatre early. We got out tickets at 6:15 for a 6:45 show. The path through the ticket line was quick and painless. See the above to explain why the rest wasn't. When we finally got to the front of the line, and got our very modest wares (two Cokes, a popcorn and some twizzlers) we had just enough time to walk to the theatre, and walk in during the opening previews. How bloody pathetic is it that 30 minutes is not enough time to get your damn snacks?