PLAY FREEEEEEE BIRDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[happybird]

6. I worked at an amphitheater in the 90's

and one memory sticks out above the rest.

I was originally hired as a white shirt (usher) but halfway through the season people had quit and we were short on green shirts (security). So they slapped one on me and I became security. No training, and I'm not really security guard material, but they just needed bodies in green shirts.

Anyhoo, Skynyrd was playing and the night was going well. Drunk and rowdy, but nothing bad or too crazy in my area. Towards the end of the show my supervisor came up and handed me a fire extinguisher. "Go to the lawn and wait," he said. So I'm like, "Huh?" He said, "You'll see."

I took the extinguisher and went to the lawn. A few other bewildered green shirts were already up there. We waited.

Sure enough, Freebird was the encore and people tried to start lighting bonfires. And what ever else was flammable. It's the only time in my life (thankfully) I've ever used a fire extinguisher.

I hate Freebird.