For the past several seasons, my husband has purchased Sabres tickets for about 1/2 dozen games. He gets 6 tickets in the box so that our son can invite some friends. Although I am not a huge hockey fan, these evenings are a great night out with food, wine and laughs. Yesterday's event was not.
The box at the arena holds about 20 people and in the past the other people we have been with are considerate, polite and even fun. That was not the case last night, as this idiot who I will call "Jack" proudly displayed his social etiquette ignorance and blatant obnoxiousness.
Period 1: The rows of seats consist of 4 or 5 seats separated by a small table. Behind the seats is a counter that seats 4. Several people are scattered about, however the last row has 4 open seats. Jack sees that we have four teenagers who want to sit together so instead of taking one of the other 2-3 seat areas, he throws his coat down to "save a seat". Jack HAD to sit in that exact location. From the box we have an unobstructed view of the entire ice and the jumbo tron. There is a small TV to the right. The boys turned the tv station to see the olympics results and Jack has to complain. So in his adult manner, he leans over and asks the boys if they know the station for the hockey team. They respond yes, so he stated "good, turn it to hockey". What the actual game and jumbo tron aren't enough? You have to show your big man by being sarcastic and demanding to teenagers?
Period 2: Jack finds a way to get his friends into the box (one of which is a local news personality). Now he takes up all the seats and our boys (being so much more polite and considerate than this a*&^ole) are sitting in the chairs unable to see the game. Jack and his friends decide that they need to take photos of themselves in the box and make a huge ordeal out of it. What are you 12 year old girls at a concert? By the way Jack, we paid for 6 tickets do you think you could have your freebie friends realize those seats are not for them?
Period 3: Now Jack and his box crashers decide to loudly discuss Phil Collins (who by the way I cannot stand), their experiences with female interns (totally inappropriate), and how expensive beer is in the box. Ever try to ignore a group of pompous guys who apparently want to be heard?
Our boys still had a great time and their behavior was beyond reproach. I would be embarrassed to be married to any of Jack and his friends who acted liked spoiled toddlers.
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Love your title! Sounds like a good letter to the editor. We had a woman in the box next to us lean over into ours whislte that whistle with the two fingers in her mouth and scream for her girlfriend six boxes away. Then she said, "I don't know why she can't hear me!" My sister-in-law who was sitting right on that side where she whistled was deaf for a day in that ear. Morons.
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