On One side the bodyguard didn't have to sound so aggressive. May be just say, "sorry but not now" or something like that.
It was the middle of the night, even superstars like Morrissey needs his sleep and not to be stopped by fans wanting autographs.
May be you should of waited to see if you could catch him in the morning.
May be Morrissey should of acknowledged you and may be said to 'sorry but not now'!
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This is what I thought, that maybe it could have been handled better. There are a lot of good points made in the posts above this one.
I did think though, what are some other scenarios? I'm going to say I believe the entire first story, even though Jeane's analysis was fascinating and if she wrote detective novels I would be more of a fan of her than I already am. I'd probably be waiting for her at 4 am somewhere.
But this is what I was thinking. Maybe if he had made some sort of "Sorry, not now" comment it would have seemed a lot different. I guess the problem is that he has experienced this hundreds, thousands of times, and he knows how it goes if he says one friendly word.
"Sorry, not now" leads to "Oh, please", or "Well, when then, you fat bastard! I buy your records!" and either way that's annoying.
If a person is going to somehow know your hotel and wait for you until 3:30 am they probably are not going to let you nod and say hello and keep going. The "pretending to use the computer" thing shows that there was intent to deceive and that alone is enough to change the situation drastically.
I know, the hotel was discovered by accident. And the location was posted on here, and no doubt they were aware of this. I'm surprised there weren't more (stalker)fans waiting.
I don't blame "I Just Ate", because there is no second chance. I mean, no matter how well he had behaved, nobody was going to say, "You know, if you're around checkout time, Morrissey will be happy to say hello and take a quick picture."
But you can't stalk someone and force them to take just one picture. No one looks their best at 3:30am and I doubt he wanted this moment preserved anyway.
I don't blame "I Just Ate" for being excited and thinking, "It's now or never" or whatever he was thinking. I don't blame Morrissey for knowing that there is no such thing as a quick picture. Who knows his hours or if he was tired at that time, but I'm sure he did not want to hear anyone's list of favorite songs and answer questions at that time of night. Even if "I Just Ate" was the coolest fan in the world, and just did a quick picture and said thanks, Morrissey was still bothered in his private time. Also, the scenario Morrissey imagined was probably more that he would be stuck in an unwanted conversation with no way to get away from the person, and not wanting to be followed to his room.
(Have you seen The King Of Comedy?)
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I really wanted to post the lady at the phone booth that asks him to talk to her brother, then when he won't, yells, "You should get cancer!"
I could understand if you thought, well, this is sort of part of his job. He doesn't have to get up in the morning and go to the screen-door factory or anything. He probably doesn't see it that way.
Anyway, I imagine the results would have been similar whatever time of day. For that night that was Morrissey's home, and it appeared as if "I Just Ate" was waiting at his doorstep with unknown intentions.
I think instead of getting up and walking towards him, maybe a good shout across the lobby would have been satisfactory to all parties.
