bloodyrosemccoy | Some Days Are Like That

One of today's school group was a perfect storm of Failing To Follow Instructions. Over the course of one show, this single school managed the following:

1. The teachers failed to account for all their kids.
2. They rectified this by waiting until I was about to start the presentation, then propping open the theater door and hollering to the three straggling kids from the doorway.
3. A chaperone showed up late, while I was already giving my night sky presentation.
4. After being expressly told by the ushers, who kindly let her in late, to sit in the front and not use a flashlight, this chaperone turned on her phone's flashlight, lighting up my night sky.
5. She then stopped dead, right in the front of the theater, and gawped at the sky with her phone light on, and ignored my repeated requests to "please keep the lights off."
6. When I said, "Folks, it seems like not everyone is seated. I'm going to turn up the lights just a little to allow them to find their seats," she continued to stand there gaping as the red lights came up. Even as I went on with "So we'll start again WHEN EVERYONE IS SEATED. PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE," this chaperone continued to stand there until someone went to get her and escort her to the seat that was, objectively, the farthest possible seat from the door.
7. At the end, I always go down to the theater to take questions while they exit. "Let's have the back row stand up first, exit this way, and have the next row follow them," I said, and immediately everyone in the theater tried to exit at the same time. I repeated myself like three times, but they continued to just charge blindly for the door.

It was amazing. I've never had a school that clueless. Is it the anarchy of the end of the year at work? Is this school just full of people who don't listen? Or was it me?

I don't know, but I'm extremely put out by this school, because I got sniped at by the next dome shift for running over time because this damn school was too incompetent to watch a fucking show. It was a very trying day.

Hoping next week is less exasperating. In the meantime, hey school--I have a video for you to watch.