Found out 10pm last night Jesse was coming to sing at a mall near me today at noon... thought, "hey, that sounds like fun!"Tiki Bar wrote:I am completely enjoying the Jesse McCartney Concert Freeview on DirecTV right now. I know a few songs from cd's in the keets' collection, and I think he's great! Keet 1 asked for his cd today, and I'll be happy to go out and get it!
Parents are completely INSANE! So are teenage girls, but that's excusable.
We arrive at 10am, and a large crowd is already gathered - some arriving before 7am... so we stand in the back, with our kids 10, 8, 6, and 4. They powwow on the floor, looking at whatever today's equivalent to "Teen Beat" magazines are, and the moms form a "protective" circle around them.
For the next hour, people continue filtering in past us, trying to push to the front, even though the crowd is already shoulder to shoulder, and front to back, and the organizers on the stage continue telling everyone to BACK UP. We finally get fed up, and start telling people "no - they can't squeeze through... there's no more room." Most just give us dirty looks, but one lady shoves me, and tells me to move out of the way!
I'm like, "move where, there's no where to go?" And she shoves me again! 
The keets were in front of me, and she's pushing me forward, and I'm doing all I can not to tumble over them! I was IRATE! She gets past me, then tells me to let her teenage kids past! I'm like "real nice, we've been here since 10, you walk in at 11:15, and you're gonna stand right in front of these little kids?" And she said, "too bad, isn't it?" And I backed down, trying to avoid a scene, and an appearance in the local papers. The daughters were just like, "we can stay back here", but she reached behind me, grabbed their arms, and pulled them through! NICE! Nice example! Shortly after, after everyone was told to back up 10 feet, since people kept pushing forward past people that had been there for hours, we went to the entrance WAY BACK (similar to the lawn away), where we could move around and breathe again.
Noon - no Jesse, just telling people to move back. 12:15 no Jesse, and my kids want to go home, can't take it anymore. I ask em to just wait a couple minutes - we had come too far to not see or hear him, and we have to leave by 1 for a bday party anyway. 12:30 no Jesse - "good news and bad news - Jesse's gonna come out soon, but everyone has to move back." By this time, the WAY BACK is no longer roomy - it's hot and stuffy - preteen and teenage girls are coming out of the crowd crying, and / or fainting, and needing fresh air out the doors we're by. 12:45, Jesse finally comes on stage. Lots of screaming, lots of people leaving - after his 2nd song, my youngest keet is DONE - time to go.
Well, he only played 1 more song after we left - Beautiful Soul - so we didn't miss much. On the way out, security was holding 2 h.s. girls back from eachother, screaming and cussing. Another security tending to a preteen laid out on the floor overwhelmed. Another friend I saw, whose daughter saw my incident and said "mom, JoAnn needs help" in a frightened voice, told me she actually got kicked and hit by a lady for not letting her through, and her friend shoved into a wall.
All this, for 10 minutes of Jesse.I seriously can count on 1 hand the times in my life I've been p*** off - the last was in 1995 actually. Time before that, the mid-80's. When it happens, people who know me go
. When I calm down, we laugh. It's so uncomfortable for me, I feel my blood boil and I get all shaky - I hate when it happens. I can't believe I was pushed that far at an event that was supposed to be for kids. I expect to read of injuries sustained by numerous people. Hubby was just shocked that a) someone could shove me as I'm not exactly petite, and b) I backed down and let her by me! Oh well.
Sorry - I had to vent! Ya'll can bill me for the counseling session!
