Things that annoy you!

We used to call them "programs".

 

Cell phones at concerts.
Very annoying.

I just came from a Dave Mason concert and almost got into two fights over cell phones and I'm over 70.
The first incident was this idiot beside me during the first band, Orleans. Now I'm not an Orleans fan but my wife and I paid $70 bucks apiece to see this show, plus $15.00 to park and this idiot keeps looking at his phone every minute or so really every minute or so, well maybe two minutes or so.
At first I thought maybe he's looking up lyrics to the song. But no he's looking at some kinda messages he's getting about something. Every two minutes or so his phone lights up and he has to check it. And that damn light gets annoying. Then he starts looking at some map with a dot in the middle, like he's tracking Batman cruising around Gotham city or something. Every two minutes.
I kept putting my hand up to block the light hoping he'd get the hint.

He didn't.
And he smelled of whiskey, so he must have been half lite.

But I kept my mouth shut as I was trying to sleep through Orleans' set anyway.
Then the intermission came around and he got up and started to leave, working his way down the row of seats.
I looked at the women on the other side of him and she gave me this look, ya know the look, and I said, "Did you see his phone?"
"Yes." she said, "I kept putting my hand up to block the light!"

I said, "Me too!, I hope he doesn't come back."

But I said it too loud and he heard me and turned right around and said, "What did you say?"

Well it was too late now to back down so I said, "The light from your phone was very annoying and you shouldn't be playing with it during the concert."
Or something like that.

And he said something and I said something back and so on, but luckily he left, probably to get more alcohol.

And the women and her husband thanked me, and my wife thanked me, and the people on the other side of my wife thanked me and I was the hero of row S for a little while.

Luckily he never came back for Dave Mason.

Then Dave Mason came out and an announcement was made about no filming, cameras, photos, pictures or cell phones are permitted during Dave's set. And please turn off all cell phones.

Of course after two songs another idiot two rows in front of us gets out his cell phone holds it over his head and starts filming Dave.
So this time my wife leans out and says, "Sir, your cell phone is very annoying could you please turn it off?" this was after the women beside her tried to reach him with a program or something and wack him on the head.

He didn't say anything but the guy beside the idiot with the phone, leans back and tells my wife to cool down.
She leans back and I lean forward, waiting for this clown to say another word to my wife.

He didn't and the idiot put away his phone.
So that worked out, but we did have to put up with the second idiot's friend being drunk and heckling Dave Mason between songs. "I love you Dave!" "Want a joint?" (Dave said, "No", really) But the guy didn't shut up and started asking Dave if he wanted some acid.

Dave was clearly getting annoyed, same as us, and immediately launched into another song.

The guy continued to be drunk and a pain in ass but his buddy never got his phone out again.

After the concert the people of row S congratulated my wife and I and thanked us for being so brave and obnoxious in our own way and the women beside the first idiot said she was going to laugh all the way home.

And did I mentioned we had to pay $15.000 to get our car out of the garage?

 

As a side note.
In the old cave man days we would light a match at the end of a concert to get an encore.
Then somebody invented Bic lighters, so we used them.
Then people stated using cell phones.

But that seems to have died out and now people just clap and whistle.