I just saw Billy Joel and Elton John

Post #34,471 by broomberg 4/4/02 10:58:01 PM Reply	I just saw Billy Joel and Elton John Serious old man music. I took my 13 year old son, who loves Billy Joel. EXPENSIVE tickets. $175 each. I'm in a section that got released for sale, day of concert, so it was 1/2 empty. I'm in the perfect seat at the FU Center in Philly. Some large, ugly, drunk guy is dancing in the aisle, directly in my view. I wait until Billy Joel starts, ignoring him during Elton John. I get up and lean toward him. Me: Can you please move over a foot? (I consider this a reasonable request.) Him: NO! Me: (shocked, amazed, and a bit pissy): Huh? What? Him: You MOVE! There are plenty of seats, sit in a different one! Me: No! (I am NOT giving up the perfect seat). I'm standing about 1 foot away from him, staring him down. Note: We were screaming to be heard above the concert at this point. Also, I'm a LITTLE guy, who never fought since junior high, no training. On the other hand, he's drunk, and I'm feeling evil, and I'm SURE I can sucker drop him. I continue stare, a foot away, waiting for the next move. Him: Hey, it's a concert! People Stand!!! Me: NO! ASSHOLES STAND!!! I step about 18 inches back, making sure when he swings at me he has to reach, which will throw him off balance, Then I can slam the side of his head as he wraps around. More staring. He has a look of total fury, combined with confused amazement. He is towering over me, and has probably never heard any back talk in his life. He seems to make a decision, and preps for a swing. At that EXACT moment, a security guard grabs him and throws him in his seat. For the next 2 hours, everytime he forgets, he starts to dance in his seat, and slowly rises. He then remembers, does a quick look around, sees me, and then sinks back down in his seat. hehehehehe
Post #34,474 by Silverlock 4/4/02 11:08:18 PM Reply	Yahoo! Damn that felt good. Oh, wait a minute. That was you. So what, it still felt good. The best scale for an experimental design is ten millimeters to the centimeter.
Post #34,501 by CRConrad 4/5/02 8:21:11 AM Reply	Naah; their new privacy policy sucks! Sorry, couldn't resist.
Post #34,549 by broomberg 4/5/02 7:35:06 PM Reply	Yeah, I have those big mouth suicidal moments. About 10 years ago I was on a plane from FL, after visiting my mother with my son, who was about 3 at the time. BIG BIKER, tattoos, beard, beer belly, etc, was sitting behind my son. His kid (11ish) was sitting behind me. The little bastard kept kicking my seat. I turned around and asked him to stop. At least twice. I complained to the dad. Him: What can I do? Me: Excuse me? Him: I can't make him stop. Me: How sad. Incapable of controlling a small child. How pitiful can you get. At that point I realized I was trapped in a plane, my back to someone who was by definition an "outlaw", and I had just insulted him. I spent the rest of the flight waiting to get slammed in the back of the head. I don't remember if the kid stopped kicking. I probably would not have noticed over my adrenaline fueled heatbeat. I met up with him again in the bathroom when we landed, but we ignored each other. Whew.
Post #34,554 by kmself 4/6/02 12:26:35 AM Reply	Air seating I don't recall the specifics, but I was in a flight, someone had stuck something in the seat pocket behind me, that was poking me in the back. I explained the problem. No response. I reiterated the problem, more vocally. No response. I jammed my elbow into the back of my seat, full force, dislodging something, and generating a notable, though incoherent, response, in the seat behind me. No problems for the remainder of the flight. Sometimes it helps to be 6'2", 240#+, and fairly compelling in person ;-) Or, as I remarked to someone here a few weeks ago who'd noted that a "self described real asshole was actually a really good friend in person": Most of us who are real assholes have spent too much time polishing the skill to waste it on people or circumstances where it doesn't pay out. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #34,568 by static 4/6/02 5:53:21 AM Reply	Yes, you're bigger than your photo suggests. :-) "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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