I know I'll probably later regret coming on here to bitch, but here it is anyway. I went to see Ross Noble tonight, which, in itself was brilliant. The man is a comic genius. He had probably 5 minutes worth of prepared material, and the other (close to) 3 hours was entirely made up on the spot, yet still had me practically in tears.
Anyway, my beef is this - and I'd like to know if others share my view or not:
After the show's interval I brought in two glasses of wine and a beer for myself. As I was going to have the beer first I put the wines under my chair right near the front, so they would be easily accessible during the show. Once I'd finished the beer I carefully went for the wines (I didn't want to knock them over), however my hand met with a knocked over cup. I felt further and my hand met with another plastic cup, also knocked over. I then felt the carpet, which was soaked with what must have been roughly the equivalent of the content of two glasses of red wine.
After further probing my hand then met with the backpack that the guy behind me had obviously put there. Not wanting to interrupt the show I took a deep breath and sat back to watch, figuring I would deal with it later.
Later in the show I moved my feet back to about 6 inches in front of my chair, but they met with the boots of the guy behind me - which remained motionless. I met with those boots a couple more times, but they remained motionless.
After a while I figured he could get fucked, grabbed his bag and threw it under the chair in front of me.
When the show had ended, he started asking me where his bag was. I explained to him the situation with the wine, and how he had knocked over $11 worth of wine with his bag and feet. He decided that that was not his problem, and demanded his bag. I told him he could get his bag when he gave me $11 for the wine he spilt. Arguments went back and forth about how he was sorry for my loss, but was not going to give me any compensation for spilling my drinks, while I thought he owed me something.
In the end, he walked calmly out of the theatre, after deciding I was an idiot. It was not until he was well out of the theatre that my mate pointed out "oh by the way, one of his mates took his bag". I had previously been thinking he was the fool for giving up on his backpack (which looked semi-professional), when in the end I missed his mate picking it up from in front of me.
What shits me is that you wouldn't walk past someone in a pub and accidentally knock over their beer, then say "oh sorry" and just walk off. You'd say something like "sorry mate, can I get you another one?" and pay for the drink you knocked over. This bloke knocked over two of my drinks and decided that since it was an accident he shouldn't have to do anything and I should just live with it.
I'll leave it there. At least I was able to get to the pub next door for a quick beer afterwards before my last train came.
Anyway, my beef is this - and I'd like to know if others share my view or not:
After the show's interval I brought in two glasses of wine and a beer for myself. As I was going to have the beer first I put the wines under my chair right near the front, so they would be easily accessible during the show. Once I'd finished the beer I carefully went for the wines (I didn't want to knock them over), however my hand met with a knocked over cup. I felt further and my hand met with another plastic cup, also knocked over. I then felt the carpet, which was soaked with what must have been roughly the equivalent of the content of two glasses of red wine.
After further probing my hand then met with the backpack that the guy behind me had obviously put there. Not wanting to interrupt the show I took a deep breath and sat back to watch, figuring I would deal with it later.
Later in the show I moved my feet back to about 6 inches in front of my chair, but they met with the boots of the guy behind me - which remained motionless. I met with those boots a couple more times, but they remained motionless.
After a while I figured he could get fucked, grabbed his bag and threw it under the chair in front of me.
When the show had ended, he started asking me where his bag was. I explained to him the situation with the wine, and how he had knocked over $11 worth of wine with his bag and feet. He decided that that was not his problem, and demanded his bag. I told him he could get his bag when he gave me $11 for the wine he spilt. Arguments went back and forth about how he was sorry for my loss, but was not going to give me any compensation for spilling my drinks, while I thought he owed me something.
In the end, he walked calmly out of the theatre, after deciding I was an idiot. It was not until he was well out of the theatre that my mate pointed out "oh by the way, one of his mates took his bag". I had previously been thinking he was the fool for giving up on his backpack (which looked semi-professional), when in the end I missed his mate picking it up from in front of me.
What shits me is that you wouldn't walk past someone in a pub and accidentally knock over their beer, then say "oh sorry" and just walk off. You'd say something like "sorry mate, can I get you another one?" and pay for the drink you knocked over. This bloke knocked over two of my drinks and decided that since it was an accident he shouldn't have to do anything and I should just live with it.
I'll leave it there. At least I was able to get to the pub next door for a quick beer afterwards before my last train came.
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"Geez I must have been off here for years - 3 journal entries since I last said anything??"
I think they've put it down to a small tear in the fabric of space and time.
As for festivals there's Download and Reading/Leads over but the bands have really gone downhill they have great headliners but pad it out with emo and indie band, oh yeah & its 140 as well
,,,and thanks for the compliments
thanks for the name suggestions...