(side note: we've been attending games for many years, our regular season tickets are around people who are a little older than us, and we have never had this problem before. sometimes we get looked at because our voices are loud like fog horns, but standing up too much has never been an issue.)
anyway, walking to our seats on saturday hailey was looking at me with those brown eyes that said, "please sit by me so that lady will leave me alone!", but as i looked down the row, jon had saved a seat for me by him at the opposite end, and i looked back at her with eyes that said, "you'll be fine! be tough!!!" a little into the second half, as the rebels were making their come back and tensions were high in the arena, everyone was standing and cheering, and the lady yells to my girls to sit down. sadie had had it! she had actually had it friday night, but just kept letting it go and letting it go, so that when she finally turned around and confronted the lady - it wasn't very pretty! (but it was sadie, so you know it wasn't that bad!) and then kristen turned around and told her what she thought, and when the lady kept yelling - all 6'2" of jon stood up and blasted her! (don't mess with his kids!!!) I can count on probably three fingers the times that i have seen my husband this upset. i sat in my seat, (i know you are all shocked!) waiting for the yelling to be over......and kristen turned into her peacemaker self and talked very calmly to her father and the lady's husband, until jon was back in his seat and my blood was boiling! our row of eight seats were now sitting silent during the best part of the game because some lady had been a jerk. really, why go to a game if you expect to sit in your seat the whole time? i don't get it!!
i wanted jon, tod, chad, and i to stand up the rest of the game and make a wall in front of her. aren't i a reasonable soul? tod and chad were offering for her to move in front of us, they were trying to work things out nicely, and i was not!! it really put a damper on things for awhile and i was surprised how hard it was for me to blow it off and get back to myself! sadie shed a few tears; i think a combination of feeling bad for starting something and frustration and anger all built up that just boiled over. that made kristen mad again and she had to tell the lady once more what a jerk she had been! poor kristen, in her delicate and fragile condition, was entirely spent by the end of the confrontation.
we celebrated the win as best we could...but you know! it definately took something out of me! so, a lot of emotions were running high that day. PLEASE NOTE: i am choosing to believe that Lee Cummard's wife is really a great woman who happened to lose her cool in front of cameras and a lot of people. i am believing she is embarrassed by her actions, and if i'm wrong i don't want to know! i am also choosing to believe that anyone else that acted poorly that afternoon regrets it as well, unlv fans included!
as to the question: who are the brawlers and who are the peacemakers??? i think we all have both sides to us. even kristen becomes a peacemaker when things start to get TOO UGLY. i polled my own family after sunday dinner. Kristen, Jon, Mike and I seemed to make most everyone's list as the BRAWLERS!!! Jon considered himself a peacemaker, I also think I am a little of both, Mike made a few peacemaker lists, and Kristen accepts who she is :)!. Sadie, Hailey, Lauren and Tod pretty much were always on the peacemaker lists. MEGAN was in a category of her own. Mike listed her as "OBLIVIOUS" and we all had to agree! Megan said , "I don't get mad, I just ignore people!" amen to that, and it's not always a good thing :)
I am labeling this picture "ETERNAL BRAWLERS!"
and this picture is my favorite of Wink's mother last year at the sweet sixteen! her shirt said "blink, you just missed Wink!"
I HOPE OMAHA TREATS MY BOYS WELL! GOOD LUCK!
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yes, i cried. i cried because im an emotional trainwreck and i cried because she pissed me off. she took all the fun out of it and i couldn't snap out of it for most of the rest of the game. who does that honestly?? i just got all pissed off reading about it.
How frustrating! I feel so bad that you didn't get to enjoy the game!! I hate it when other people ruin good things! no fun... glad there weren't any fists thrown!
i'm sure that lady got what she deserved. and sadie, my response to most emotion is to cry. when i'm mad, i cry. when i'm frustrated, i cry. when i'm happy, i cry. you are not a trainwreck, you are just sensitive.
wow! how stressfull! but i'm glad y'all stood up for yourselves :) hopefully she won't buy season tickets next year :)
Sounds kind of hysterical and exciting to me, but I always do love watching a good brawl. I would have been laughing uncontrolably so that probably puts me on the brawler list! Hopefully she doesn't have season tickets!
susan - just a small bit of info i learned many years ago by experience. (Don't ask Brenda about this...she doesn't have fond memories of it)
at most events at arenas/stadiums if you by a ticket and have a seat, that entitles you to that space and as long as you aren't harming anyone or anything you are able to do what you want (within appropriate boundaries) there. that means you can stand up, scream, cry, dance, jump up and down, etc.
next time that happens to you, you might want to just grab a security person and they usually will tell the rude lady behind you that she can't tell you sit down.
i know how frustrating/sad that is. too bad people have to be ornery.
I find we are all peacemakers and brawlers. It all depends how we got up that morning or if someone is messing with a family member or if we have invested time and emotion to the situation. So that could have been me instead of Sadie and I would have yelled (but not cried) at that lady. Of course yelling at the lady would have ruined the game for me too . So this could have been all of us.
I find we are all peacemakers and brawlers. It all depends how we got up that morning or if someone is messing with a family member or if we have invested time and emotion to the situation. So that could have been me instead of Sadie and I would have yelled (but not cried) at that lady. Of course yelling at the lady would have ruined the game for me too . So this could have been all of us.
Susan, Although I am some what smaller than I used to be, I could assist you and your family in forming a rather large wall to allow this kind person sitting near you, the ability to develop a more compassionate and accepting personality? If that fails I can still be rather intimidating and can resort to other methods of "teaching". No one should mess with my granddaughter’s Mom, Grandma, or Aunts
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