Concert Spoilers

[carol7lynn]

I've been going to concerts for over forty years now. Every so often the experience is spoiled by some whack-job or two in the audience. Last night it was these two guys behind me who talked throughout the entire show. When I politely asked them to lower their voices, one of them got down right nasty and verbally abusive. I won't go into the what he said and what I said but I did keep my cool and managed not to respond in kind. I have found that a soft answer may not always "turneth away wrath" but it does keep the situation from escalating.

What boggles my mind is how down-right rude and mean some people can be when confronted with the fact that their behavior is inappropriate and offensive to others. I've had beer spilled all over me any number of times and when I complain they either call me names or try to blame me for it. At an Eagles concert a couple of years ago, one out-of-control woman (also drunk) almost cold-cocked me and the guy in front of me and when we both complained she tried to jump me-her friend who pulled her off me said, she was grieving over the recent death of her brother.

Last fall, at one of Lindsey's solo concerts, a woman beside me shushed me when I was singing along with one of his slow songs and I immediately apologized and stopped. It's this simple: Just because you paid x number of dollars to see someone perform doesn't mean it entitles you to act like a jerk and ignore other people's reasonable requests.

Just needed to vent. 99% of the time everything is great it's just those times when people violate all rules of a decent society that it makes me wonder what on earth drives humans to act so unkindly toward others.

CarolC