Meet And Greet in Franklin

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by redtulip

We will just have to agree to disagree then, because I do feel very lucky to have this opportunity. Feelings are subjective, so I don't know how what I'm feeling can be wrong.

Certainly they are. Just like the question of priciness is subjective. I felt rather lucky when Ticket Master was offering those special seats where you could get a better ticket for a premium price. I thought it was a conflict of interest for Ticketmaster and I already thought Ticketmaster was a corrupt system, but it allowed me to get a good seat without having to go through a scalper who would have charged even more than Ticketmaster did.

I feel lucky to get to see unique shows like Soundstage or the Saban or Stevie at the Wiltern. Whether Stevie and Lindsey should feel lucky to have fans or not is a different question, but there are many ways that I have felt extraordinarily lucky getting to pay my money to see them.

I saw the Dance show 8 times. Had I known Christine was leaving, I would have tried to see it twice as many times and if I'd had that chance and been able to collect those memories, there's no way I'd consider FM the lucky ones, instead of myself.

As for being upset, I wouldn't go to a meet and greet because I don't want to talk to those people, but I remember in England one of FM's security people (not someone associated with the venue, but someone working for them) came over and told me to put away my camera -- when everyone else was taking photos like crazy. He told me I was not allowed to have that kind of camera. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I felt someone from the stage told him to come out and make that request directly to me and I was very hurt and upset about it. I cried the rest of the evening. I think maybe they thought I was recording rather than taking pictures, just because I kept my finger on the button, but I've never recorded in my life and even if I had been recording, there were hundreds of people there recording, why was I singled out? As hurt as I was about that, I know I would feel very unhappy indeed if I was slighted during a meet and greet.

Michele