Smiles & Tears

Last Wednesday i went to watch a movie in shatea plaza..to my horror the place was so crowded it was stuffed like a fish market( although I have never been to a fish market before but that's a metaphor we use whenever there is a chaotic place ahem) !.... believe me it was a total chaos!...people were standing everywhere ..it was difficult to walk among them …it took us 15 minutes just to get a chocolate bar and a bottle of water from the canteen as we already had our dinner so no nachos for me thank you! …and it took us ages to get into the theater so we ended up getting inside 9:45 in a 9:30 show because of the huge line up and the mix up of the people who were standing to buy a treat and those of us who wanted to enter inside!!! ..then when finally we got seated according to our seat numbers (thankfully) as not every time it’s the situation in alshatea…so many times you get to sit where ever you like and that’s terrible because some times when you go in a group you end up getting seated separately!...Anyways that wasn’t the end of it !...in the theatre whenever someone else came up….other people were asked to move from their seats because they weren’t seated according to their tickets number! ..and I was hello!...where was the ticket guy when these people got seated ?!! I mean wasn’t he suppose to show them their seats before they got seated instead of asking them to move on later on?!...it was a total mess!!..what puzzled me more was when a group of six girls came in and guess what the house was already full!!..they stood for a while and then they rushed out and seemed very upset!!...now how on earth they got tickets for the show when there were no seats available?!!And to think that our kids think that al-shatea plaza is a cool place and it’s the ‘in’ among the cinemas of Muscat ( as if we have many of them!)…and they consider alBahja for raw!! ….duh what’s so cool of being in a place like that?!..raw or not give me alBahja cinema any time!...at least there you have a place to sit while waiting for the show to begin …..and your way isn’t blocked when you want to get inside the theatre , and a gentleman guides you direct to your seat …so no mess up afterward …one more thumps up for albahja is that it’s nachos are far more delicious compared to alshatea!..al-shatea plaza should expand it’s hall a bit and make it more organized to separate the entrances of the theatres from it’s canteens ..it should have a place for people to sit while waiting..but seeing it’s location I don’t think they can be able to do that! ..unless they emerge the shops that are beside it !

(p.s.s i had an urge to take a pic of the situation but knowing how we omanies react to strangers taking our photos stopped me!)