Thursday, October 15

Ushing for a living


I am employed as a some-time usher at an institution that hosts public events. Tonight we debated the question of  ‘Are Things Getting Better or Worse?’

The two main speakers were a gentleman with exquisitely sculpted hair and excellent trousers and a physicist with a pudding-bowl haircut and floppy leisure pants. The physicist said things are getting better because we know more stuff and will make really good robots to fix everything then the well-trousered-gentleman said things will get worse because of all the ways people could easily use technology to do bad things and anyway climate change and population growth.

I had to dart around with a microphone so that the audience could join in. An orange-haired woman pointed out that better and worse is not at all a clear-cut issue:

there could well be people here who want London to be a clean city full of bike-riding vegetarians - this is my idea of hell

At the end of the talk I stood smiling at the door as everybody filed out or stopped to complain, there was a lady who’d had to sit next to someone eating a muffin and getting drunk and another with deaf aids who couldn’t hear a thing but had hoped for a bit more philosophy.

6 comments:

  1. I ushed at Michigan Stadium a couple of times in the 1970s. 105,000 drunks. Nothing interesting like bike-riding vegetarians.

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  2. we're sort of on the same page, sweetpea. ok, i'm not an usher, but we both...ok, we're both blogging. LOL anyway, the bike riding vegetarians in london made me laugh. ;) xoxox

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    1. We are on the same page - you've just got better food xxxx

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  3. Never gonna catch on in London, all those cycling vegetarians. Because, Smithfield.

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