The lovely Mrs ERJ and I went to a wedding yesterday.
It was not my favorite activity.
Too much loud noise. Too many bright, blinking lights. Too many people and too much chaos.
And that was just on the drive to the venue. There was a very large emergency-response on the corner of Canal Road and Windsor Highway on our way in.
The rest of the evening was a string of pearls: Short interludes of relative peace-and-quiet interspersed with noise, blinking lights and chaos. No gunshots were exchanged, so the event had that going for it.
A big tip-of-the-hat to Mrs ERJ. She had a pair of hearing protection in her purse that she let me use. Bless you, dear. Bless you!
The Groom's Party looked like they could have been cast members of the show Peaky Blinders. They had a definite "vibe".
I am very, very happy that young people have the desire and means to get married.
One of my oldest's friends just got married (21 yrs)... civic event at a party-house, catered by the chinese take out place! Shoestring budget, but they're in love, found a priest, and got married. God bless 'em.
ReplyDeleteEverything is always WAY TOO LOUD wherever I go out.
ReplyDeleteGo figure? The kids have better hearing than we do and they want to "feel" the music.
DeleteEven when I was younger, anytime I went to a bar that had a band, it was painfully loud.
DeleteI guess I'm somewhat of a hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteI hate crowds, events that involve crowds, rooms full of people talking loudly. I have difficulty picking out individual speech from the background noise.
But I enjoy fireworks, videos of fireworks and other pyrotechnics (airstrikes, artillery, missile launches), and the like.
DUDE !!!!!
DeleteLiking Booms and explosions are ingrained as man stuff !!!
Watching the antics of people today… I’m good with going deaf. Can’t have an argument if I can’t hear ‘em. Never woulda thunk deafness is a blessing…
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DeleteERJ. having been to a couple of weddings in the last two years, I am grateful that there have always been areas that are relatively "music free" that one can retreat to and just be or have a conversation. The music really is too darn loud.
ReplyDeleteERJ. having been to a couple of weddings in the last two years, I am grateful that there have always been areas that are relatively "music free" that one can retreat to and just be or have a conversation. The music really is too darn loud.
ReplyDeleteThe military has only relatively recently realized that hearing protection is a thing. Dammit.
ReplyDeleteI've been know to wear earplugs at the movie theater.
I prefer not-directed-at-me gunfire over "Too many bright, blinking lights. Too many people and too much chaos."
"I am very, very happy that young people have the desire and means to get married."
ReplyDeleteI know you mean well, but somewhere around half of those young married men are going to find themselves evicted from their families and absented from a meaningful role in their childrens' lives while living under abusive and unconstitutional court orders. You really need to start spreading the opposite and far more rational message to young men: Don't marry, don't co-habit, don't have kids until men have equal reproductive and parenting rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyP21gd3ICM
Great series Peaky Blinders, may have to watch it again. If you liked it watch Taboo.
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