Funny but no laughs

Last night Ali and our neighbors went up to Fort Myers to the Barbara B Mann theater to see Kathy Griffin.  We have always thought she was funny and we catch her reality show from time to time.  We had never been to the B B Mann but it is the big spot where a lot of acts perform.  Well my first impression of the place was that traffic management was not ever considered.  To get into the parking lot we had to make a left turn which was governed by a green arrow.  We were 20 minutes before the event and there were tons of cars trying to make the left. The arrow stayed green for no more than 10 seconds, allowing at the most 2 or 3 cars through, it was crazy.

Well once we finally got in the lot we headed inside, it was a sold out show so there were a lot of bodies in there.  Kathy Griffin has a huge gay following so as a heterosexual male, I was in a huge minority.  Our seats were 2nd row from the top, it was all Ali could get, but I figured even top row would give you a decent view of the stage.  I was wrong.  We were up HIGH.  The seats sloped down steeply at more than a 45 degree angle.  People down on the stage looked tiny.  That’s fine if you are watching a football game, when you are viewing a comedy show it isn’t good.  The show started about 8:05.

Kathy came out and the only thing you could make out clearly was her bright red hair.  She went through a 2 hour long set which was filled with tons of funny stories. impressions and jokes, but I didn’t laugh out loud once.  Why?  I was too busy squinting to try to see her, straining to try to hear her clearly, sweating from the uncomfortable warmth in the venue and squirming around trying to get comfortable.  Since we were so high, we had to lean forward and look down the entire 2 hours, try leaning forward in your chair for two hours it, you won’t like it.  Like I said, Kathy was very funny but she also is very hard to follow, she has serious ADD.  She jumped around from story to story, often not finishing the story she was on, coming back to it later.  It became laborious to stay with her, especially when it was hard to hear in the first place. It was too bad our seats were so bad, if we were down low or were watching the show on TV I am sure I would have enjoyed it much more.  If I ever go to another show at the Mann, and the only seats available were up in that section I simply would not go, it was just way too distracting from the performance.

Getting out of the parking lot was a DISASTER.  As bad as it was to get into the lot, getting out was 10 times worse.  The place just is not designed for the amount of people the theater holds.  You have streams of cars coming from literally 6 or 7 directions all merging into 1 single lane to get out.  It took at least a half hour to leave the lot.  We got home late and didn’t get to bed until after midnight, needless to say my ass is dragging today.

Yesterday I did a quick mile on the treadmill over lunch.  I didn’t have the time to increase the distance and I really didn’t want to anyway since I had a negative reaction last week.  Well today I feel more or less fine, no knee pain at all really.  That’s a positive sign.