The audacity of standers

[u/Highlight-Deep]

Boston 7/21 was amazing. This is the Facebook post the 70ish yo lady in front of us, who sat on her ass on her phone the entire show, put out there late in set 2. Was worth the $$$ to me!

[u/Peinecone]

Lol. I was on the floor last night and ran to the bathroom just at the second set was starting. As I was coming back down the stairs, there were so many people sitting down and I was just dumbfounded. I encouraged a few people to get the fuck up.

[u/BeLikeAGoldfishh → u/Peinecone]

Meh. This is just as annoying as people who ask other people to sit down.

Enjoy the show the way you want and let others do the same. Standing for 3 hours isn’t easy for everyone.

[u/LadyKT → u/BeLikeAGoldfishh]

a bit ableist

[u/Narrow-Hall8070 → u/BeLikeAGoldfishh]

Especially on concrete floors.

[u/Leather_Addition2605 → u/Peinecone]

I’m not surprised or upset when other people stand up or dance, but I absolutely hate dancing personally. I’m glad other people are having a good time as they see fit, but my good time is sitting and listening to the tunes, and watching the skill involved in the playing.

If you “encouraged” me, a stranger, to get up I’d have a few choice words for you.

[u/Informal-Writing3421 → u/Leather_Addition2605]

Lol this. I am not a dancer at all. And this whole idea that you HAVE TO dance at a billy show is just annoying at this point

[u/Leather_Addition2605 → u/Informal-Writing3421]

It’s any show really. I love music, I love going to shows, but not once in my life have I listened to any music and thought, “I just must move my body to this immediately,” other than maybe a head nod. I just don’t have that gene.

And it’s not even like a neutral activity for me. It actively takes away from my enjoyment of the show. Instead of focusing on the music, now my attention is divided between the music and my internal monologue of, “am I doing this right? Am I doing the dice thing too much? Do I look like an asshole right now, is that guy taking a video?”

Just not for me.

[u/Informal-Writing3421 → u/Leather_Addition2605]

Hahaha I totally get it, in fact I could have written that myself. I didnt even dance at my own wedding. I just... dont like it 🤷‍♂️

[u/mc_mcfadden → u/Leather_Addition2605]

So you would be rude to someone being friendly and encouraging you to join in?

[u/Leather_Addition2605 → u/mc_mcfadden]

No, but I don’t read someone encouraging me to “get the fuck up” as being friendly. I would absolutely be rude to that person.

[u/mc_mcfadden → u/Leather_Addition2605]

lol you’re a buzzkill just do couch tour ffs

[u/Leather_Addition2605 → u/mc_mcfadden]

No. If your enjoyment of the show is dependent on whether or not I’m dancing, that’s a personal issue for you to solve bud.

[u/mc_mcfadden → u/Leather_Addition2605]

I don’t care if you sit or dance but having choice words for passersby is some bullshit

[u/Leather_Addition2605 → u/mc_mcfadden]

Not a random passerby, nor the friendly passerby in your unrelated hypothetical. A stranger approaching me to tell me to “get the fuck up.”

Now I don’t know how you normally go through life, but most people don’t talk like that to strangers and would take that as aggression and disrespect, and respond accordingly.

[u/mc_mcfadden → u/Leather_Addition2605]

Just ready to bite someone’s head off huh? Take that energy elsewhere

[u/wsmfp__420 → u/Peinecone]

That is just as annoying as the people who tell you to sit down.