NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/music/gdead/22554

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: silly condom joke
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Keywords: condoms, silly jokes, the true meaning of life...
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:49:39 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (me) writes:

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>ODC: in reference to recent remarks about overcrowding at Oakland
>Coliseum shows...i've noticed that for the last year or so people
>have been getting increasingly territorial about saving seats for
>their friends, who then show up at the last minute. i remember at
>the pre-NYE shows last year there were people scarfing up whole
>rows of seats [or damn near], and putting articles of clothing on
>them to 'reserve' them for friends. i can see saving a seat or
>two for someone who's just slipped out to use the bathroom or
>grab a coke, but i dunno about this business of annexing entire
>neighborhoods for your personal party.
>

I've gotten pretty disgusted with this practice and the associated line cutting at
amusement parks around here too (e.g. Disneyland, Santa's Village). My wife and
daughter waited in line for Santa for over an hour without advancing at all, while I
saw many people riding other rides and then cutting into the front of the line. They
finally got to see the man after waiting almost 2 hours.

Mike Healy

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