ShellBeThere
War Child
So, I had to find a forum to apologize since I didn't get a chance on the floor last night....
This was my first time GA, and I was rather shocked actually at the amount of pushing thru the crowd that happens. I sorta thought that once there was the inital jockeying for position there would just be maybe lunges forward when Bono came near, and purposely set myself up a good dozen or more rows of people back from the catwalk and the central crowd on the floor, all the way over on the side railing. It was elevated like the soundboard--woohoo!--a rail to hold onto with fresh air on one side and an inch or two more height for me! I didn't guess that people would try to constantly jockey forward, pretending like they were looking for someone up front or returning from a beer run, and quickly my heightchallenged self was getting blocked from any view at all...
The last straw for my newyorker head happened when two young women (maybe even younger?) jockeyed in front of me, one straddling the little platformy thing with one foot and positioning her ponytail right under my albeit prominent nose. I kept hoping she'd move, but she didn't, and then she started tickling my nose with her hair, and so I finally exploded with something like "you know, it's really kinda bugging me that you got yourself right in front of me and now all I can see is your ponytail". She turned around and gave me a shocked and disgusted look and said there wasn't any room to be elsewhere, and I said sure there is, there's room right there off the platform a step. Her friend was quite heightchallenged (*she* should have been given the platform-y spot!) and I felt both justified and bad about my words...
I felt better getting it off my chest, but sorry for being harsh...it would have been better to say "excuse me, how can we work this so we all can see, because right now your hair is majorly in my face".
So, if you're out there...sorry!
She got her revenge though...a couple minutes later one of those meninblack handing out bombshelter bands came along the rail and gave one to her and her friend! All he gave me was a weird look as I tried pleading with my eyes for one...too old? too tall with my platform shoes? bad karma?
I *don't* feel bad, however, though maybe I should, for shouting 'shut up' and 'fuck you' to the guys in the VIP seats off the floor who were yelling at Bono "hey we don't want to hear it! get on with it! " during his prelude to One?!!?
Okay, I felt a little bad about that, since Bono was talking about the left and the right working together and all, and it seemed a little bit contrary to the spirit of cooperation and tolerance to tell them to fuck off, but there was no excuse for that! they were really loud too, the buggers...
whew...I feel better now! and it was a really fantastic show! cheers all!
This was my first time GA, and I was rather shocked actually at the amount of pushing thru the crowd that happens. I sorta thought that once there was the inital jockeying for position there would just be maybe lunges forward when Bono came near, and purposely set myself up a good dozen or more rows of people back from the catwalk and the central crowd on the floor, all the way over on the side railing. It was elevated like the soundboard--woohoo!--a rail to hold onto with fresh air on one side and an inch or two more height for me! I didn't guess that people would try to constantly jockey forward, pretending like they were looking for someone up front or returning from a beer run, and quickly my heightchallenged self was getting blocked from any view at all...
The last straw for my newyorker head happened when two young women (maybe even younger?) jockeyed in front of me, one straddling the little platformy thing with one foot and positioning her ponytail right under my albeit prominent nose. I kept hoping she'd move, but she didn't, and then she started tickling my nose with her hair, and so I finally exploded with something like "you know, it's really kinda bugging me that you got yourself right in front of me and now all I can see is your ponytail". She turned around and gave me a shocked and disgusted look and said there wasn't any room to be elsewhere, and I said sure there is, there's room right there off the platform a step. Her friend was quite heightchallenged (*she* should have been given the platform-y spot!) and I felt both justified and bad about my words...
I felt better getting it off my chest, but sorry for being harsh...it would have been better to say "excuse me, how can we work this so we all can see, because right now your hair is majorly in my face".
So, if you're out there...sorry!
She got her revenge though...a couple minutes later one of those meninblack handing out bombshelter bands came along the rail and gave one to her and her friend! All he gave me was a weird look as I tried pleading with my eyes for one...too old? too tall with my platform shoes? bad karma?
I *don't* feel bad, however, though maybe I should, for shouting 'shut up' and 'fuck you' to the guys in the VIP seats off the floor who were yelling at Bono "hey we don't want to hear it! get on with it! " during his prelude to One?!!?
Okay, I felt a little bad about that, since Bono was talking about the left and the right working together and all, and it seemed a little bit contrary to the spirit of cooperation and tolerance to tell them to fuck off, but there was no excuse for that! they were really loud too, the buggers...
whew...I feel better now! and it was a really fantastic show! cheers all!
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