Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Relationships are tough things to get right because often you have two people with very different lives and priorities working to be together while maintaining that sense of individuality while wanting companionship. It's a hard mix to get right and often when that mix turns out to be a bit of a mess, the break up or the reasons for it can be even messier. At least that's what I think after catching some news items regarding some interesting fights and break ups in the news recently (not that I go looking for these kinds of things).

Now we've all been in situations where you've gone to a movie with your significant other where you (and I'm referring to guys though I'm sure girls experience this as well) have absolutely no interest in the subject. For us guys this is generally applicable to movies known coloquially as 'chick-flicks'. These are movies that have some romantic sub-plot or story line and can often be more schmaltzy than interesting. Still, there are plenty of such movies that are well worth watching and I don't think they're all bad. But apparently a couple in New Zealand was embarassed enough by their escapades to make the news there. Apparently the girlfriend dragged the boyfriend off to a chick flick and he was so bored that he fell asleep. He fell into such a deep sleep that he began snoring. Loudly. Now that is embarassing enough but the girlfriend decided to do him one better.

After the movie concluded, she decided to leave him there and she walked out of the theatre and went home deciding to teach him a lesson. Around 3:00 AM the boyfriend woke up in the theatre, which had since been closed and locked up by the theatre employees and he was now in danger of being arrested after setting off the movie house's motion alarms. The girlfriend panicked when she woke up around the same time and realized that he had still not returned home from the theatre. The couple was reunited and though they may not have gotten a stiff fine from the authorities, it probably either served to awaken them to the affection they had for one another in the first place or drove a stake between them and their relationship that after this incident, the probably never spoke to each other again.

Still, though this incident was interesting and a bit on the unusual side, there was no one in danger, other than the boyfriend who could have been charged with trespassing though he was not at fault. If the theatre workers didn't notice a snoring sleeping man sitting in a theatre then there's probably a lot more they miss. But that's another topic for another time. In this case, the boyfriend and girlfriend were the only ones affected. There was one girlfriend who tried to make it very clear to her boyfriend that she was interested in breaking up, but the way she decided to go about telling him this was a bit... out there. While her logic was sound, she was a bit dumb for assuming that there would be no other fallout other than breaking up with her boyfriend.

What she decided to do was phone in a bomb threat to the airline her then-boyfriend was due to fly that day. Her thinking was that after the boyfriend discovered who had made the threat, he would be turned off and would not want to be with her anymore. Well, guess what... she got her wish. She was convicted for making bomb threats by calling the airline several times to get the call recorded and responded to in a timely manner. The flight was immediately diverted and evacuated and though no bomb was found (mission partially accomplished) she didn't think ahead to the fact that in this day and age, she would be arrested faster than she could say "I hate you". The 120 passengers (including her now ex-boyfriend) probably won't forget this relationship break-up either though it was probably one of the more creative, albeit dangerous, ways to end a relationship. I guess building a relationship isn't as easy as it appears. Neither is breaking up apparently.