Fri-yay

ei34

How's everyone?  Wishing you all a good weekend!

CharmedPam

I went to see my Patsy Cline show last night.  It was good BUT during act 1, two ladies sat behind me and were talking through most of it. They had to talk louder than whispering to your neighbor because most of it was singing. It was super distracting and ruined the experience.  One of them kept on whistling after almost every song too, and she was RIGHT in my ear. Like she was gonna rupture my ear drum it was so loud. I almost was going to say something but I grew up to respect my elders and I didn’t want a scene. I completely understand getting into it and enjoying yourself (it was almost like a Patsy Cline concert) but this was not just someone enjoying the musical. 

So at intermission I got up and switched seats. I go during press night and thankfully it’s usually only 1/3 full so I had plenty of empty seats to choose from. My new seat wasn’t as good as my paid seat, but you know what? People on the right side knew to be quiet. It was much more enjoyable that way but all her hit songs were in act 1. And why should I have to change good seats because people don’t know how to act during shows like this? I don’t know how people around me were taking it, but they also didn’t have these people right in their ear either.

I was talking to my other theatre enthusiast friend about this the other day and she says talking throughout shows is becoming more and more apparent. She does say something to them though. They’re too expensive to sit through and hear other people’s conversations. 

Anyway, that’s my gripe. Lol.

banana468

DH and I saw Movin' Out the dance review of Billy Joel songs probably 20 years ago.  We STILL say 'That was great!" in the dumbest NY accent we can muster when we think of our experience because the dude next to us kept saying that after EVERY SONG and during The Stranger the MOFO whistled too.

I contemplated getting up to find and usher but I wasn't sure if it would do anything.  Years prior when my brother's choir at the HS sang in Carnegie hall the people in front of us wouldn't stop taking photos.  I finally told them to stop to the moritification of my mother.  Sorrynotsorry YOU are the one being an ass and affecting people. 

short+sassy

@CharmedPam, I totally agree with you.  People are shockingly inconsiderate of the noise they make in a number of scenarios, with the theatre being one of them.

I LOVE Patsy Cline music!  I'd be bummed also.

I was at a Pat Benatar show in Biloxi.  It was in a seated theatre.  I was in my 40s at the time and was one of the youngest people there, lol.  So it was a more sedate crowd and people weren't usually standing.

There was a drunk woman who was disturbing dozens of people.  Multiple people at different times asked her to sit down and/or stop singing so loudly.  Security even came over at one point and (I assume) asked her to cool it.  To be fair, her behavior would have been fine at most concerts.  But she was NOT reading the vibe and room correctly.  Fortunately, I wasn't close enough for her to bother me much.  But from my further away vantage point, I could see the sheer number of people who were giving her a dirty look.

levioosa

Not the same as the above mentioned, but I went to a very OG Catholic funeral yesterday and the woman behind me was grumbling the whole time that “it wasn’t like this before…” and “people should be standing right now. Why are they sitting? Why isn’t the priest telling them they have to stand?” And then she sung along with the cantor for all of the songs, even the ones which weren’t supposed to have audience participation, and she was so off tune it was actually funny. 

I am exhausted. I went to my cousin’s grandmother’s funeral yesterday and I ended up driving 5 hours in total because LA traffic is the literal worst. But overall it was good and I’m glad I went to support. I also woke up at 3 am and couldn’t go back to sleep so that was another blow for the day. It was pretty chaotic. 

Poor H had an interview and was so stressed about that and finals and could not accept any advice I was trying to give, advice that he admitted I was right about after the interview was done. I think he did okay but not great which is a bummer because it’s a good position. Two days before he caught one of the kittens outside that I think is salvageable although it’s on the older end of salvageable. At least I think we can easily vaccinate and then TNR. Then yesterday he caught another one which was so so so sick, and that was a whole thing while we were trying to get ready for the day. There’s a lot of mental gymnastics that I know went into that decision that’s easy to see from an outside perspective, but he’s in denial about it. I do care that he wants to help, but sometimes you have to take care of your own stuff and I think it was a little self sabotaging to focus on the kittens instead of the interview. I get it, he’s still super burned out and has some real PTSD from his last job and isn’t quite ready to jump into the workforce again right away. But I also know we have to have dual income soon and it’s not like that job would have had him start next week anyways. At the least it would be 1-2 months out. Just ugh to that. 

Anyways, life is stressful. Grandpa is supposed to come home from the facility on Sunday and we’re doing a Father’s Day lunch at their place. Tomorrow is Father’s Day lunch with FIL. Honestly June is so full of events that I can’t wait for it to be over so life can calm tf down. 

ei34

Oooh audience members singing along with the actual talent bothers me when it's not an intentional sing-a-long type event.  These tickets weren't cheap bud.  Lol at the dumb NY accent @banana468 I can picture exactly who you guys were sitting next to! I enjoyed Movin Out on Broadway twice and certainly sang along but in my head.

Sorry about H's interview @levioosa, and wishing you a wonderful trip @short+sassy!

Phew, went to write and got pulled away with work craziness.  It's been a day.  
This evening is the twins' 4th grade dance (glo party theme)- one of their final elementary school events.  I'm on the set up committee but not staying for the dance itself.
Tomorrow the kids and I are joining my union at a local No Kings rally...a lot of us have teacher-themed signs (sort of.  Simplified equations and spelling lessons type stuff.  The one I made says "You can't spell hatred without spelling red hat").  And we'll visit my dad tomorrow evening- he wants a quiet and peaceful Father's Day so a Saturday evening pop in it is.  Sunday will be mass, and I told exH that the kids would be around all day for a Father's Day visit.  I don't think he'll come see them, but we'll be local anyway.

banana468

@levioosa that makes me wonder if the person grumbling hasn't been there in a while??  Funerals haven't really changed all that much but there were shifts in the mass about 13 or 14 years ago and if it's been a while they might be taken off guard.  Ditto that the wording for the Nicean Creed is now different from what it was in the 90s. 

short+sassy

@ei34, there was a reality tv show years ago called (I think) "Selling New York."  It was about 2-3 real estate firms in NYC who sold higher end properties.

One of the firms was family run and the main agents were the mother and her two daughters.  They had very strong NYC accents.  It was really funny.

I still remember a scene where a family friend's daughter was looking to buy an apartment.  She'd found a place she liked, but her own mother was very against it because the building didn't have a doorman.  That was already a foreign concept for me because I think it's only somewhat common in a few cities.

The agent mother and her two daughters then also proceeded to freak out about no doorman.  The way they pronounced "doorman" is the most NY sounding thing I have ever heard, lol.  The "door" part of the word was very elongated and I can "hear" the sound difference in how they pronounced it but can't describe it.

I also remember from that show there were some apartments they showed clients with $8K-$10K/month HOA fees.  I'd be like, "Someone could GIVE me that apartment.  For free.  And I still couldn't afford it."  I'm sure some of that charge is needing to have a staff of door people, lol.

VarunaTT

I'm so glad it's Friday.  I need to get my bedroom finally organized, b/c it's making me irritable that I can't move around it in.  Finalize the kitchen.  We're down to the individual boxes needing to be handled, which is good.

Harley has her yearly next week and I have a couple of appointments too.  Work is starting to settle in with the new program.  I'm at least making headway on things.

Overall a good, if long feeling, week.  I'm ready to just veg at some point.  It's Pride weekend in my city, but I haven't been since I handed it off.  IDK maybe I'll go this weekend, but I'm not feeling it.

charlotte989875

Also glad it’s finally Friday! Work is quiet so getting some stuff done then logging off. H is going golfing so I’m solo parenting dinner and bed. I might try and take them to a restaurant with a patio down the street. Maybe. 

No big weekend plans. Father’s Day and swim Sunday but otherwise quiet! 

levioosa

@banana468 I got more of the sense that she is super devout and just couldn’t let stuff go and was mad that the rest of the audience wasn’t as devoted. She was spot on with the “and your spirit” and other changes. It’s a trip going to that catholic church in particular because they are all suuuuper Catholic. Like the Italian community is so old and old school they were still doing weekly masses in Latin until like ten years ago.