Thoughts that went through my mind in my first experience being an extra

With this post, this blog passes up Keeping Each Other Honest.
Some of my brother's friends (and I guess at this point my friends) are putting together a full feature film. Their company seems to be a pretty big deal, but this is their first time making a full length film. They were looking for people to help load equipment and since I'm starting to go insane waiting around my apt for more info about my school job, I offered yesterday to help. They called today so I went down to help as a P.A. and in the last 5 min of the shoot, was recruited to be an extra. Here is a rough collection of my thoughts:
1. "Um I'm creeped out": I wrote down the wrong address and after being lost for what felt like forever, was still lost on kind of a shady street at 9p.m. in LA. Some people started following me as I went to my car and talking to me but they were nice enough to let me get in my car and drive away so I could find out the actual address.
2. "I wish I changed in the car": I had been at a bbq where I was trying to look cute and arrived on a set where most of the people were in tshirts and jeans. I felt totally over dressed.
3. "Why do I have to yell?" with "I really don't know what I'm doing": In my head PA is what my brother did after he graduated college. Now I understand that nearly anyone can be a gopher, when they told me to yell rolling and then cut after someone else yelled rolling and cut and that was my only job I felt like an idiot. Why was I yelling it? and what happens on a movie set?
4. "Wow the same problems come up in live theater": People kept talking "backstage" off-set I guess. I could hear them and they still tried to deny it when we told them we could hear them. At least my stage manager training allowed me to pinpoint where the noise was coming from.
5. "I hope I don't train annoying actors": Not that the actors were really annoying. Most of them were really nice. One thing that does come up with actors though in live theater and my experience tonight was their lack of understanding for what is going on around them. They will often wait till the middle of a technical issue when the lights cameras and action is going on to ask a question or they will decide in the middle of a scene that they really need to go running to get something. Hopefully in training my actors in both technical and acting they will understand that there are better times to do those things.
6. "Um ok I guess I'm in this now": When they decided they needed a nurse and I was there to be one.
7. "Wait he just called me the pa": Really I was just there as an extra set of hands but as he said "Susan the PA is going to be the nurse" I realized that being an extra set of hands is being a PA
8. "Please God, let me not hurt Trumbo... or the wheelchair": One of my friends was in the wheelchair I had to maneuver. I had small space to get through and not a whole lot of practice with moving wheelchairs. Plus, having someone I knew in the chair just made it that much more frightening. If I screwed up Trumbo's only memories of me would be on New Year's Eve and running him into objects.
9. "Frick I'm stuck": Yeah one time we were a little late getting the wheelchair rolling thanks to it getting stuck in the door- that time the note was "Wheelchair we need you to come out sooner"
10. "Well, now I've been an extra": the whole thing took like 3 minutes at the end of the shoot. Hopefully I don't look too ugly but you know whatever.