Posted by Jim at November 18th, 2006

Kristen went to the Grand Rapids Symphony last night. She went with my sister because I was going to a role playing game.

When I got home she complained that some people in the row in front of her were drunk and hollering at the points where you could applaud. Apparently, the people next to her actually moved because they didn’t want to sit directly behind these people.

I’d never imagined the Grand Rapids Symphony as something that could be improved with copious quantities of alcohol. Drunkenness seems like something you’d do at a more popular event like a hockey game (”HEY NUMBNUTS!”) * or a rock concert.

UPDATE: According to Kristen, I missed many of the more annoying activities of the drunken women in the row ahead of her. Thus it’s worth noting that they also:
1. Sang along
2. Swayed along with the music
3. Pretended to direct the orchestra

Their ages? Fifty-ish according to Kristen. In short, old enough to know better.

* Actual quote (among many, many others) from a very drunken man I got to sit behind at a Griffins‘ game. And did I ever tell you about the Red Sox vs. Yankees game I once attended? We got seated behind an entire bar full of people. At least that’s what I guessed from their identical t-shirts. I can only assume that they’d hung out there before the game because they certainly had no need to get beer at the stadium (which didn’t stop them) and shouted abuse at the Yankees practically from the beginning to the end of the game. My dad likes the Yankees, but I don’t remember him being particularly vocal about that at the time. Maybe he should have been drinking.

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