Surprise! (maybe not)

So tonight I had planned to take my son to the movies. I got home from work, told him to get cleaned up & dressed 'cause we were going somewhere. Of course, he hits me with his usual line of questioning:

"Where are we going?"
"Have we been there before?"
"Will I like it?"
"What will we do there?"
"Can you give me a hint?"

The only hint that I gave him was that he had to wear clothes. That didn't help him much.

So we get in the car and we head over to the theatre. We get there and he has at least figured out by this point that we're there to see a movie. So he says, "Yeah! We're gonna see 'Movie X (not the name of the actual movie)!"

>Insert screeching brakes sound here<

"Ummm...no", I tell him. "That's not what we're here to see. I thought you wanted to see 'Movie Y' (again, not the name of the real movie)".

He says, "Uh...no. I heard that wasn't very good. I wanted to see 'Movie X".

Okaaay.

Mind you, the movie that we were there to see was about to start in 10 minutes. So I dial up good ol' Moviefone to find out when "his" movie is playing. It wasn't playing again for another hour and a half. Oh NO!

I explained to him that I was pooped & there was no way that I could hang for that long. So I told him we'd try again tomorrow.

Was he disappointed? Of course. But I hope he understood. I think he did.

Let the DIALOGUE begin! Have you ever planned a surprise that just didn't work out the way that you had planned?

Talk to me!

Til next time...