i haven't read any of this cause I am super tired... But if it makes anybody feel better after my rant I made the mistake of taking the "Lucky Star" Chinatown bus to boston and back - it broke down on the way back hehehehhehehehehehe.... and I just got in!!!
it was worth it but no more buses for me. I am driving tomorrow. it was kinda hilarious though... when it broke down on the side of the road for 3 hours... just because it is the chinatown 15 dollar bus n' all.
LOL...damn that chinatown bus! That sucks.
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[email protected] just woke up from a 2-day Nyquil-induced coma, finally got into work and figured I'd see what was going on in the world of solo. I can't believe this thread is still going.
I just wanted to chime in my thoughts. But before I do, I have to share my experience from Sunday, b/c I was getting a lot of nasty looks on line myself and don't want to be called a hypocrite.
I got on line Sunday in the early afternoon. Normally, I was getting on line at 4-5pm and getting 2-3rd row on the floor...so I didn't know how the line situation was working in the hours leading to m arrival. I took public transportation early in the morning, showed up at Hammerstein and noticed like 25 people where they usually have the General Admission people lined up. The area where the MaxMoz people usually are herded into by Venue Security was empty, so genius me in my half-awake stupor thought, "holy $hit...I'm the first one in line out of the 5-Day Pass people!"
(looking back..that was a retarded thought...LOL)
I sat there on the steps for a few hours and smiled or said hi to anyone I saw who left the line and they would either give me a brief smile, a stare, a nod or ignore me. OK...now, I'll admit it was my own stupidity for assuming I was first on line but I thought that maybe the GAers were lining up early and the MaxMozers were coming around 4ish..since I had gotten there at 4:15 the day earlier and been only 40+ people back.
Sometime after 4pm, all the people who I thought were GA, were allowed to move up into the MaxMoz-Pass section...that's when I realized,
"holy f#ck, they're all N-Typers! I'm a freakin moron!!"
Here's my little gripe and it's more on me for assuming anything than on anyone else...but if I saw someone sitting at the door who obviously looked like a Morrissey fan...maybe it's just ME, but out of common courteousy, I'd go up to them and make sure they knew they were in the wrong place instead of just staring them up and down for hours.
Instead I had people come up to me and say, "what do you think you are doing? We're here" with a nasty attitude. Now, it didn't matter to me anyway..I apologized and said it was my mistake and that I had thought I was the first in line. Instead of any sense of compassion...and by that I don't mean them saying it's okay to stay where I was...that'd be as retarded as me thinking I was ACTUALLY the first in line LOL...but how about not staring me down or talking about me as I'm moving towards the back of the line? I was wrong, made a mistake and moved back in line to where I judged I should have been had I been in the proper line. As I said, there were about 25-30 people there when I got there...so I went around 40 or so people back. And if people still insisted they were in front of me, then I let them go ahead. It all worked out the same and once again, I was 3rd row center. But the attitude of some people pissed me off to no end...if I heard one more person say "he shouldn't be here" one second and then watch them let a friend who hadn't been in line for over an 90 minutes jump into the line, I would have went more nuts than usual. WTF?!?! People were walking around talking about who's on "the list", who should be at the front of the line, or who shouldn't be should take their List and shove it up their rears.
It pretty much didn't matter anyway, because as soon as the door opened...the stampede started and I let the animals crush each other because I am not dealing with that type of $hit anymore. I probably got in like 55th or so, which by all means was fine.
In the end...it worked out well. I had a great time, ended up being in line with some awesome people and got a shred of shirt for my troubles at the end of the show. So I can't complain too much.
I guess my complaint is just the elitist attitude that some fans seem to have over everyone else. Letting in their friends or people they deem list-worthy is one thing....but reaching out to someone they don't recognize is out of the question? I realize it's like that in the real world as well, but we're all there for the same reason...why not show a little understanding or compassion to your fellow fans?
Forgive the rant...I think I still have a fever and am delirious, which definitely sux, cuz that means Md is out for tonight.