way hey and away we go

Monday night was the Great Big Sea concert that I've been looking forward to for weeks and weeks. I love them. A lot. The concert itself was in Sellersville, PA, which...I had never heard of. But Google maps is a handy dandy thing, and Amanda has GPS, so we did ok. Turns out that Sellersville is a fairly rural town about an hour outside of Philadelphia. It reminded me of the town I grew up in....sort of. Not really.

My town was way more farm-y, and didn't have quite so many Mennonites. Sellersville is, apparently, chock full of Mennonites. Anyway, so we drove through looming metropolitan Sellersville and found the theater where the concert was to be held. Since we're Grown Up People, we partook of some adult refreshments (a merlot for the lady friend and a delightful Yuengling draft for me, both in classy plastic cups) and then found our seats. Here's the great thing about our seats: The theater itself was only big enough to seat a couple hundred people, so we had a pretty good view of the stage, even though we were back in row S. Here's the not-good thing about our seats: We were seated directly in front of a whole group of Talkers. I totally understand that people want to cut loose and have fun at concerts. I completely get it that you might want to exchange a few words with the friends around you from time to time. But this was a group of several fiftysomethings with loud, grating voices, who cracked stupid jokes and made inane comments during the entire opening act (which was a group called Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans. Ohhhh Canadians.)

The Talkers were perfectly friendly and not belligerent or anything, just completely obnoxious. We sat through their yakking until we couldn't stand it anymore. Amanda spoke to an usher, and the usher and the manager of the theater spoke to the Talkers at least three times. No results. But the awesome upshot of that was that for our patience, the manager upgraded us to the front of the theater halfway through Great Big Sea's set! We spent the rest of the show just a few rows back from the stage! It was fantastic. I loved it. So thanks, Talkers! You were great!