nolineonhorizon
Babyface
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- Jun 24, 2018
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My experience from a concert this month. I spoke to the security the night before and they confirmed what had been communicated through official channels: show up at such and such place at X o’clock. The next day, I showed up, on my own, some time before the venue was to give out wristbands. No one was at the designated venue site. Not long after that, some line people appeared and told me I needed to get a number. I kept asking why I needed one, as that’s not what the official venue requires, and they kept dodging the questions. They would merely repeat I needed one if I wanted to stay in the line and that I had to go back in line so that all the people with numbers from the list can come in front of me. I tried to argue with them—their response was that the list is common knowledge and surely no more than 20 people will end up in front of me even accounting for the list. In the end, I ended up over 150 spots behind my original spot, all filled with people from the list.
I do know and realized even then that these people had no means of forcing me out of the spot if I just dug my heels in. But being alone, I felt intimated and as I did not want to have more confrontation, I did end up moving back. I regret doing this now. My motivation was that I didn’t want to feel uncomfortable all day long, and possibly arguing for hours. Well, the experience still did tarnish my day regardless.
Maybe the thing to do is to let people as many people know as possible so they are not caught by surprise and do not let themselves get mobbed out to the back of the line.
I do know and realized even then that these people had no means of forcing me out of the spot if I just dug my heels in. But being alone, I felt intimated and as I did not want to have more confrontation, I did end up moving back. I regret doing this now. My motivation was that I didn’t want to feel uncomfortable all day long, and possibly arguing for hours. Well, the experience still did tarnish my day regardless.
Maybe the thing to do is to let people as many people know as possible so they are not caught by surprise and do not let themselves get mobbed out to the back of the line.