Surrounded by Idiots

This weekend was an excellent example of how great people can be, and how incredibly stupid they can be as well...

I also try and cram too much stuff into my weekends - as evidenced by Saturday which included some well-deserved sleep-in time, running at Pt. Defiance, the Tacoma historic house tour, purchasing plants at the Rhodedendron society sale at Pt. Defiance, dinner at Il Fiasco (excellent!), and then a show in Seattle.

The show in Seattle was Devotchka which is an indie/gypsy/eastern european all around great but hard to describe band from Denver. You may know them because they did most of the soundtrack for Little Miss Sunshine.

So LW and I get there when doors open, grab some overpriced drinks, and stake out one of the few tables in the "beer garden" area in the back of the club. This is nice because it sits right behind the sound board guys and because of the angle LW can actually see the stage. The place gets busier and more packed but we're good, we've made friends with some interesting folks and of course the people-watching is always A+ at a place like this. Needless to say LW and I both have some great new people on our teams...

So Devotcka starts and some douchbag decides to sneak him and his girlfriend into the small space between the table we have and the fence around the soundboard, standing right in front of the two people we've been sharing the table with. I mean this was like a 18" gap. The guy next to us taps the guy on the shoulder and explains that he's blocking their view, B LATENTLY blocking their view. He shrugs and he and his girlfriend moves over in front of us.

I being a nice guy politely tap him on the shoulder and explain that he is blocking our view.
He shrugs
I tell him to move because we've been here all night and now we can't see
He says he can stand wherever he wants
I tell him to move
He gets tough and asks me what I'm going to do about it
I decide getting into a fight would be dumb, the girl next to me offers to spill her drink on the two...

Complete douche-bag. The people next to us made some space and we move to a place where we can kinda see, I don't know if LW saw much of the lead singer but she assured me this was normal for her at shows. The best part is everyone around us told us how much of an ass the guy was. The two were also stuck there all night and couldn't go get a drink or go to the bathroom because they knew they wouldn't be let back to their spot. Karma is a bitch.

This along with the usual round of T-town bad driver shenanigans was proof the world is going to hell and we're just along for the ride. Thank goodness I had some quatro de mayo food and cerveza on Sunday to make things right...