Except my wife is scheduled to work that Sunday. A little more debate and she decides she can surely find someone to fill in for her.
Tickets purchased, family happy.
Next day the wife does indeed find someone who can work her shift, however due to some weird Bed Bath and Beyond rules, the wife is unable to trade the shifts, but has to give up her hours. Wanting to earn that little bit of cash, wife mentions that she’ll see if someone on her tier can simply trade shifts, but if not then this girl can just have it.
All is well, until the following Saturday (the day before the show) and the wife calls the shift taker to verify that she will, in fact, take the shift. Oh, but no. Shift taker has now made plans to see the Colts play in their championship game. No chance will she miss that, for a few extra working hours.
Calls are made to the place of employment. Conversations are had with management with results pointing to the wife needs to find new replacement. More calls are made, desperate pleas are haggled, but no one is willing to work it. Damn those Colts, making everyone want to stay home and watch the TV. More calls to management, more cries of desperation, more of the same answer.
Decision is made. Don’t show up for work, come see a concert.
While that seems an especially ludicrous decision, especially given the fact that I am also currently unemployed, let me explain. The wife is finishing up graduate school. She will shortly have her Ph.D. in French Linguistics. Bed, Bath and Beyond is amazingly temporary, and frankly a rather crappy place to work. The wife will also be teaching at a local university in two weeks, so the plan was to be quitting the BBB once she got her first pay check anyway. So, this was really making it happen a little quicker than we had planned, but the refusal of anyone in management to understand was enough to make it an easy one.
Sunday morning comes and I look out my window. Snow. The warmest winter on record and the one day we’ll be traveling and what do we get? Freaking snow, that’s what.
Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
wow, cool show! i'm not so familiar with Clark as with the others. love Joe Ely. the band i used to be in got some special joy out of playing "Everybody Got Hammered"
2 - Mat Brewster
See I know Clark's stuff pretty well, but only know a couple of Ely's tunes (and he didn't play either) but it was really cool to see all those guys up there, playing songs and having fun.
3 - Mark Saleski
ya, i can't imagine a show involving somebody like Hiatt not being fun.
4 - El Bicho
So where did you post the torrent of the show?
5 - Mat Brewster
Believe me I was looking around for tapers. But it was in one of those nice auditorium type places there were all sort of notices about taping and photographing not being allowed, so those big mics would have been noticed.
I do have a copy of these four performing several years ago you might persuade me to send you. This will, of course, rely on my ability to actually find it in my unorganized collection, and your ability to send the shows you promised weeks ago.
6 - Connie Phillips
Congrats! This article has been forwarded to the Advance.net websites.
7 - Loyal to Lyle
We saw the N.M. round of this show. Agree it was wonderful. But not your remark on Lyle interviewing Hiatt about his song (the horse song, right?). That was hysterical, in a distinctly Lovett, understated way. And Clark wasn't annoyed, just playing the straight guy. How could you miss that?
8 - Mat Brewster
He looked kind of annoyed to me at the time. Maybe you're right and he was just playing along. It was a great show either way.