Saturday, September 18, 2004

Drunk and Beligerant Rude People at the Ford Ampitheater

Last night I went to see a Flamenco show at the Ford Ampitheater, if you haven't seen Flamenco dancing, you've gotta check it out, fast guitar fingerpicking and strumming, violin and rich vocals accompany the equally fast footwork of the dancers tapping away as they gracefully move around the stage. Last night's performers were very talented and were apparently world-renoun Flamenco dancers and musicians.
After arriving a little late, we sat next to this older couple that was sloshed and kept talking through the whole performance, at one point before intermission someone behind us gave them a sharp "SHHHHH!" and they got a little quieter. After intermission they unfortunately and eventually found their way back to their seats, and they proceded with their obnoxious chit-chatting during the performance, and now the woman was clapping off beat and singing to the music. Being that we didn't come to the Flamenco show to hear these two, at one point I turned my head to the couple and gave them a "SHHHH!", and then the lady looked at me and said "NO!", and then I asked her politely "Please be quiet" and then after another "NO, I won't", a little thrown off-guard I said "Please show some respect". Well, I immediately regretted it, because then the lady started clapping even louder and being more annoying, and a couple of people in front of her also told her to be quiet, and one lady got up and moved saying "You are a bitch!" as she left. After that I started hearing the old guy grumbling things like "He said Shut-up to you? I'll knock him out." and "You don't say shutup to a woman.", for the rest of the show I did my best to ignore them untill towards the end the guy started yelling in my direction somthing like "Hey you! You appologize to my girlfriend! That was really rude to say shut-up to her." and of course when I tried to tell him that I just said "Please be quiet" he couldn't hear me so finally I gave him the universal index finger over the lips gesture, indicating that I wanted to hear the rest of the show and didn't want to shout over the music like he was doing so that his old-ass ears could hear me. When he finally got up from his seat and joined his girlfriend towards the exit of the theater I was happy that I didn't have to worry about this drunk beligerant asshole and his rude insensitive bitch yelling more shit at me as we left the theater.
When we were walking through the parking lot I saw him checking out the crowd as if he was looking for me, and I was thinking I might have to show him a little judo, maybe a throw or two a choke hold or something, but as soon as he saw me, he turned and walked towards his car, "That's right old fart, I look a little bigger when I'm standing up! That's right...keep walking." I thought.