The joy of beating a deadline - or when being in a rush is fun

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So last night I missed the earlier showing of Sweet Sixteen I planned to get to due to the DJ at work being a bit crap and only having CD's (necessitating different equipment than what ordered). So I leave work at 6:30 - and toy with making the 6:45 showing at the Curzon Soho. But this whould spit me out at approximately 8:45, meaning I would be late for the 8:50 showing of Freeway at the NFT (and of course the NFT not having trailers that would be 8:50 on the dot).

I mean I've seen Freeway before but never in the cinema and I really wanted to see Keifer Sutherland's beat up face big. But in the end I plumped for Sweet Sixteen with the vague iodea that it might end a bit quicker and have really long credits and I didn't want to hang around for two hours.

Sweet Sixteen was fantastic and kicked out at 8:37. Leaving me thirteen minutes to get to the NFT from Shaftesbury Avenue. Tube to Waterloo from Leicester Square would take about five minutes, and then it was a matter of negotiating the entrances and exits. I decided to give it a go, and with a mixture of canny No Entry hopping, running and luck I made to the NFT just as Danny Elfman's score started.

SO I saw what is undoubtedly one of the best films of the year, coupled with a classic of recent years. But the best part of the evening was the race against time. Any similar stories?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

every morning on way to work. dont enjoy it though

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 14,000 words due in by the end of Friday and I'm chatting on the net at 12:30am on Wednesday. I'd say I'm going to have a very unpleasant last minute rush that should really have started by now.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

If I were in Pete's situation, I would have spent the whole of the first film thinking "will I make it to the second one on time?". I've never been one for taking deadlines to the wire.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't expect to be able to make the second film and was pleasantly surprised when Loach's one finished five minutes earlier than I thought opening up this window of opportunity. Yay!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Dealt with quite a few -- I prefer to have space before deadlines these days, but sometimes things creep along. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I was up until 5am last night writing a paper! Oh wait, that wasn't fun at all!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh i hate deadlines. i metamorphose from a caterpillar into a wasp.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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