Picture of Difford and Tilbrook playing Hourglass since I didn’t take a picture of the guy who paid an admission fee to sit in a loud room and do crosswords on his phone.
Charitably, could be an attention issue. I’ve had to start learning about ADHD as I’m basically the only one in my nuclear family without it, and a common thing is needing to be doing something while listening.
It is mildly infuriating at the best of times to have someone constantly fidget and squirm and not acknowledge you while you talk, but listening doesn’t always look like listening unfortunately.
Though, I haven’t heard of this specific thing while at a concert it’s not beyond imagining that it’s just a tactic to accommodate their own needs.
If he is accommodating his own needs and those needs involvie being a distraction, maybe he could have bought a ticket for the mostly empty back row so his phone wouldn’t shine in other people’s faces.
It could also be a case of severe addiction; I’ve too often been at (different kinds of) performances where people felt the need to play games or watch sports (at their kid’s school play no less), too often for adhd. And many times it’s a boomer, so the screen goes on max brightness for visibility.
I’m sorry. Squeeze is such a fun show! Sometimes shit happens - this was my view at Weezer in 2010.
That would have pissed me off so much if it was last night because Squeeze is one of my favorite bands and I’ve wanted to see them since I was in elementary school.
There was another guy a few rows down capturing video with his lights on. Thankfully, he only did it a couple of times for about 30 seconds, but I felt bad for all the people he was shining that light on, and another lady who thought no one could see or smell the huge cloud from the vape she was “secretly” bending down and hitting every few minutes. This was in an indoor theater. I’m glad there were no kids around.
Why are people so damn inconsiderate of others?
We were at a concert recently and i loudly said, “hold your phone in front of your face so you’re only messing with your own view.” The guy in front of me and his buddy did stop holding it up over their heads for a bit.
I wish I could be confrontational in those situations. Good for you for doing that.
Don’t ruin your own experience because someone else is enjoying it differently than you like to
Kind of hard to have as good an experience as I otherwise might have had without a guy’s bright phone shining in my field of view.
Squeeze is great, sucks that you were distracted
In terms of concert distractions that was pretty good, asocial vs hostile. One concert I went to before COVID, some jerk literally elbowed his way to the front.
He took a few punches before getting hoisted over the barrier so w/e
Theaters here ask people not to text during the movie. It’s not about sound distraction, it’s a bright, visual distraction.
You know what you need to do with that guy’s phone.
Take it to the bridge…
Probably because of friends and family
