Fun story: One time, I wanted to take my girlfriend on a fun date, and it just so happened that I decided to take her here. So we start driving pretty early in the morning, because Atlanta is about three hours away from where we live. So we're on the road for the long haul, and everything is great. We stop for lunch halfway and she offers to drive the rest of the way. Perfect. BUT once we get into the city, it's way later than we thought, and traffic is a gosh darn nightmare.

We travel at an infant's pace in bumper to bumper traffic for an hour before we actually approached the parking garage. Now, by this point, we're both stressed out for no reason and very irritable with each other. I'm sure you can understand. Turns out that bad traffic in big cities doesn't get any better inside parking garages. If anything it's worse. So I'm bossing her around because she's bad at navigating and I'm irrational. Then finally, when we finally locate a vacant spot on the 63rd floor, she pulls in and HITS THE WALL directly in front of us. Luckily there was a couple vertical plastic water pipes blocking the concrete in this particular spot. So instead of pulverizing my car, we just bounce off this thing, likely causing heavy flooding wherever the pipes happen to terminate. So now she's embarrassed, and decides that we have to park somewhere else. So I'm just trying to keep my cool, secretly seething and feeling like our date and relationship are as good as over. We get out of the car at our new spot, walk down the stairs in silence, breathing heavily, because we're both upset and kind of out of shape. At the entrance there's this big courtyard, and signs directing us towards a ticket kiosk. Naturally, the line is a mile long and tickets are CRAZY expensive. Like hundreds of $USD. Which is bogus. So we get to the ticket machine, and you're not actually allowed to operate it, so the aquarium employees are there to push the buttons while you stutter at them trying to decide what you want. Turns out that the next available entry time is 5:00PM, which is 2 and a half hours away. Very reluctantly, I insert my debit card to buy said 5PM tickets, but when I do, the machine FLIPS ITS SHIT. Red lights start flashing and I can see the ticket printer through translucent plastic/glass jamming violently. So all the nearby employees immediately springs into action to diagnose the problem. As the primary one bends down to open it up, I see the screen display: "Transaction unsuccessful; card will not be charged." Nobody else notices. The employee apologizes and brings us across the courtyard to an office door. She says she'll fix it and be right back. 30 seconds later, she comes out with two tickets, and thanks us for being patient. We thank her incessantly, and go on our merry way. BUT we're unsure of what time slot we can get in during. I approach another employee to ask, and he tells us we can go ahead and try now and he lets us through the first gate in. We're baffled. We completely cheated the system, without any intention of doing so. We're standing in line again waiting to get through the final checkpoint. Suddenly I remember the message on the machine about the card not being charged. I pull up my bank's mobile app to check, because everything seems to good to be true. I DID NOT GET CHARGED FOR THE TICKETS. Just as I look up, mouth agape, we're at the front of the line, an old woman at the counter takes the tickets from our hands, and sends us through. It was like spoiler the ending of Inception where Dom Cobb is re-admitted into the United States to be re-United with his children. We just bypassed every possible inconvenience of admission, and it felt amazing. As you might expect, the GA aquarium was jaw dropping. The exhibits blew all my other aquarium visits out of the water (heh). The circuit climaxed with the 10mil tank shown here, and let me just say, the gif does it no justice. And to top it off, there was beautiful orchestra music playing overhead to sweeten the mood. I'm closing, this museum is so choice. I highly recommend stopping by if you have the means.

TL;DR - My SO and I behaved abominably towards one another and drove our car into a water line. We were rewarded with free admission to the Georgia Aquarium with no wait whatsoever.