Drama in the Concert Aisle

[kybearfuzz]

I got to the Freedom Center early for the CMC concert and found a seat at the end of an aisle for ease of leaving if needed. Right before the concert began, a married couple came up to my row looking for two seats together. They asked the guy sitting one seat over from me if he'd move one more down so they'd have two together.

"There just aren't any seats together," Mrs. Rude-Inconsiderate-Pain-In-The-A$$ (RIPITA) said.

Well, if you didn't get to the concert two minutes before it started, maybe you could have, I thought. Only an idiot expects to find such things at the last minute.

So Mr. and Mrs. RIPITA pop down next to me. The concert begins and in the second song, they get a call on their mutual cell phone. So Mr. RIPITA gets up and I get up to let him out. A few minutes later we repeat the dance in reverse to let him in again. During the next song, Mrs. RIPITA decides it's her turn to take the call and I let her out and back in. Figuring this is my lot in life, as I attract these kinds of people at movie theaters, I bite my tongue and just let them go. We repeat his exchange with him .. then her... one more time.

During the last song of the half, Mr. RIPITA starts talking on his cell phone and isn't even bothering to get up this time. Finally, the gray bearded bear behind me taps him on his shoulder and asks politely if he could put his cell phone away during the concert. Mr. RIPITA looks at him and says "no, I can't." Now I'm getting pissed off as this @$$hole and his hag have disrupted nearly every song performed so far for me. Mr. RIPITA stands up and I stand to let him out AGAIN.

"I'm sorry," he said to me.
"So am I..." I replied in a deadpan voice.
"That's it," he said angrily, "Get your stuff, we're leaving," motioning to his wife.

The wife grabs her purse and jacket and the two of them march out. I rolled my eyes. Leave the drama to the queens, I wish I had told them, as it's best done by professionals.

During intermission, I thanked the guy behind me for speaking up. The guy sitting on their other side was thankful too. Obviously, they were annoying everyone around them. If the RIPITAs can't be disconnected from their world for two hours to enjoy a concert, then they shouldn't have come in the first place.

Comments

[madkevinp.livejournal.com]

AMEN....

[ursaloco2.livejournal.com]

*nods in agreement*
I'da cut a bitch. And her ugly husband too.

[ronm.livejournal.com]

I had a conversation with a neighbor (who has kids) a few years ago, in which I expressed my wish that theaters would install cellphone jammers so we all could enjoy movies in peace. She asked, "But what would happen if the kids needed to call me?"

I asked her what our parents did when they went out for the evening.

I actually think she got it.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Smart guy! I just can't imagine the idea that a person cannot be contacted for at least a couple of hours, barring an emergency. It is almost arrogant.

I can understand if someone wanted to step out to check on things at least once, but to be continuously called during a concert is too much.

[ronm.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. There's no reason to disrupt other people's evenings. If you need to be that in touch, don't go out!

But it seems that most people are oblivious to those around them. Sorry you had to experience it firsthand!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL! I experience it first hand often, usually by teenagers at the movies. :)

CMC?

[phenryss.livejournal.com]

Who is that?

I totally agree. It's stupid to show up that close to the start and expect 'good seats'. If you snooze, you lose. And it looks like they were lozers!

hehehe

Hugs!

Re: CMC?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

CMC is the Cincinnati Mens Chorus. They are a great group, I have a lot of their CD's.

And yeah, the cell phone couple was annoying beyond belief...

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

You'll never believe this ;)

At church this morning, this lady who comes to all of our concerts came up to me and started telling me how she and her husband tried to go to the concert Friday and kept having to leave because of the cellphone. Seems there was miscommunication between whoever was supposed to pick their kids up from karate or something, and the "babysitter" thought the kids had been kidnapped - in Blue Ash - lol - and so they had to leave the concert. She said how bad she felt that they kept interrupting the people around them. I didn't say a word ;)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. okay, now I feel a little bad about the situation!

I wondered if they were regulars at the concerts and worried that they might not come back, but it sounds like it was an evening of errors. Still, it is kind of funny how it got back to you :D

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't feel bad about it if I were you. They made the choice to have kids, and now they have to deal with the consequences of that decision. It's not everyone else's problem and they should take that understand that before they go out somewhere.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Actually, if I had to guess, I would have thought their kids were older than they apparently are. The couple isn't a younger couple.

You are correct, though, the people around them shouldn't have to be bothered by their behavior.

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

People like that annoy me to no end. They are so inconsiderate of everyone around them.

They must be destroyed.

[djmadadam.livejournal.com]

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL... there is a part of me that would love to be so brazen, but I know it would have disrupted the concert even more to do something like that.

[djmadadam.livejournal.com]