Sep 04, 2007 04:48
Well, I'm currently unemployed, due to a situation. But this is something I saw when my family went to the CNE on Sat. It's basically a huge two week long fair like thing.
My mom and I went to go see the dog show. We managed to get down at the front row because my mom was in a wheel chair.
Any rate, the show has a three toned carpet laid out. The center part is blue, then there's a row of red and black. I THINK the black is the outtermost row, I can't remember. I'll assume it is.
Any rate, because this show is ALWAYS in high demand, they were going to have people sit on the rug. Now coming in, people were told REPEATEDLY TO STAY OFF the red and blue carpet, walk on the black. (Exception being if you were in the show.) We must have heard this easy a dozen times while people were filing in.
Any rate, the suck comes latter on when the stands are filled. A group of either late teens or early 20s comes in. They have that sort of self absorbed attitude. Stands are full, and they are starting to seat people on the floor, starting in the back corner, working their way forwards. Obviously so they can get everyone in. I think there were 4 girls and two guys, but I could be wrong. Most of them were fine.
But what do these two girls (who seemed to be in charge of this whole operation) do? Well, they decided to sit in the MIDDLE of the stage, half way on the red carpet. Never mind they should be down another ten feet. No they wanted to be dead in the middle.
Needless to say, a show person comes over and tells them to move down. Now, I couldn't hear what was being said, but I sure could read these bitches body language. They were acting like babies, refusing to move. You could see the guy pointing them down, and these two girls shaking their heads no, pointing at the ground where they were. This went on for all of maybe five minutes, and then one of the guys pointed out that they didn't have to move that far. Others had been filling in around this group.
The bitches finally gave up, for the moment, and moved. AND SAT DOWN HALF WAY ACROSS THE RED CARPET AGAIN! Which brought ANOTHER confrontation with the show people. I have to ask, WHY weren't they thrown out at this point? The rest of the group was fine, and even seemed a bit embarrassed by the behavior of these two self absorbed jerks. Eventually they gave in, and moved back like they were supposed to.
At least I didn't notice any trouble with them after that, but still. You are at a dog show, where the dogs run off leash. Even though these dogs are USED to the audience, it's expected the audience works with the handlers for both their protection, and the dog's. Those two were lucky I wasn't in charge, or I would have had them thrown out for being total asses.
Just to prove that these show members weren't unreasonable, they managed to get a few people to move so that a woman and her son (Who tried to run across the ring pre-show) could sit back away from the ring to avoid any potential in show problems. No one minded a bit. It looked like the woman even apologised for her son's behavior. (They had been sitting on the ground like the earlier group. Again, music was loud, I couldn't hear much.)