auggiedoggie wrote:
I was lucky enough to be able to bring my son and step daughter to Orlando for their spring break to see the Furthur show. They busted out the best setlist I have heard yet... Due to too much TV at her mom's house, My step daughter generally much prefers iCarly or Taylor Swift to any sort of Grateful Dead music. ..So my partner and I were really excited to have the opportunity to show her some great music and some happy people just being themselves. The evening started out good, with many people going out of their way to be nice to the kids and give them glow sticks to play with. Half way through the second set, Some fellow whose enthusiastic spinning and dancing was attracting the attention of the security decided that my family needed to leave. My 6 year old step daughter was on my partner's shoulders, my 2 year old son on mine. I assume the security told the dancer he needed to cool it because there were little kid's around, so he kept getting in my partner's face (with our kid on his shoulders) demanding that we leave because security was going to kick him out. The third time it happened my partner got angry and told him to show some respect and leave us alone. At that point a few members of the crowd stepped in and told the mad dancer to back off, but unfortunately the damage was done. Our daughter felt unwelcome and even threatened because of this dude, and wanted to leave. People like that embarrass all of us dead fans. All we wanted to do was to take our family to stand in the light for a while, and even though most people show lots of love, our job of trying to enlighten our daughter has become even harder than it needs to be.
Did you maybe thing to respect the dudes dancing space and to take your kids to a more kid friendly part of the arena? That dude was probly having the time of his life dancing at a show and the only reason the security was prolly lokin at him was cuz you had your kid on your shoulder where everyone s dancing and spun out. thats not a good decision righ there to be honest.
I hate when im at a show dancing and having the time of my life after driving 25-30 hours to a show. And then there hapens to be a couple "salty" people who say stuff like "quit down now" " can you not step on my 20x20 blanket that ive set across the arena floor to mark my space" even tho they paid 50 bucks just like everyone else. I actually enjoy pissing people like that off
and to be honest i have been in the same position where i was really getting down in Chicago last year at furthur and out of nowhere there ladies brought there kids next to me becuase the kids said i looked like i was havin alot of fun and they wanted to join.... I said hey come and join the party.... everyday!
