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This is maybe a little off topic but since everyone paid to attend, I suppose we were all customers in a sense.
My daughter's annual Christmas concert was last night. As expected the place was packed with proud mums and dads. We have the usual round of the schools great and good doing their little welcome speeches and then on to the entertainment.
First up was the school orchestra, kid behind us starts crying (2 or 3 years), parents ignore him. He howled for about 10 minutes and they just sat there, no attempts to quiet him or anything. Then comes on the choir of which my daughter is a member. Out comes the camcorder! I moved over to the side of the hall to get a good shot of the stage and to make sure that I wasn't blocking the people behind me from seeing the kids. So the kids start singing and the older woman and her, I assume daughter, sitting just to my right start having a conversation. I'm not talking about whispering, they were practically shouting to hear each other over the children. I glanced over at my husband a few feet away and his face was like thunder. I bite my tongue for a few minutes and they just keep getting louder. All the other parents were giving them glares, sighs etc but no one said anything.
I'm afraid I lost my temper just after my daughter's solo. She's been poorly and her throat has been very sore so she was a bit croaky. Not that this is a problem, they are kids for heaven's sake, you don't expect ruddy Whitney Houston at a school concert. But this woman started to criticise my daughters singing, saying she didn't think she was much good etc etc. I leaned over, tapped her on the shoulder and what follows is pretty much verbatium....I forgot to turn the camcorder off.
"That is my daughter you are talking about. She is 11 years old. She has also been ill, if you think you can do any better, get your fat sorry ass up on the stage and try. You are an ill mannered ill bred sorry excuse of a human being and if you don't shut the f**k up I will personally drag you from this hall and make you sing f**king soprano!"
All this was said very quietly just at her ear. I think I scared her!
My daughter's annual Christmas concert was last night. As expected the place was packed with proud mums and dads. We have the usual round of the schools great and good doing their little welcome speeches and then on to the entertainment.
First up was the school orchestra, kid behind us starts crying (2 or 3 years), parents ignore him. He howled for about 10 minutes and they just sat there, no attempts to quiet him or anything. Then comes on the choir of which my daughter is a member. Out comes the camcorder! I moved over to the side of the hall to get a good shot of the stage and to make sure that I wasn't blocking the people behind me from seeing the kids. So the kids start singing and the older woman and her, I assume daughter, sitting just to my right start having a conversation. I'm not talking about whispering, they were practically shouting to hear each other over the children. I glanced over at my husband a few feet away and his face was like thunder. I bite my tongue for a few minutes and they just keep getting louder. All the other parents were giving them glares, sighs etc but no one said anything.
I'm afraid I lost my temper just after my daughter's solo. She's been poorly and her throat has been very sore so she was a bit croaky. Not that this is a problem, they are kids for heaven's sake, you don't expect ruddy Whitney Houston at a school concert. But this woman started to criticise my daughters singing, saying she didn't think she was much good etc etc. I leaned over, tapped her on the shoulder and what follows is pretty much verbatium....I forgot to turn the camcorder off.
"That is my daughter you are talking about. She is 11 years old. She has also been ill, if you think you can do any better, get your fat sorry ass up on the stage and try. You are an ill mannered ill bred sorry excuse of a human being and if you don't shut the f**k up I will personally drag you from this hall and make you sing f**king soprano!"
All this was said very quietly just at her ear. I think I scared her!
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