Due to one of those informational lapses that tends to plague my concert-going plans, I missed the Smoking Popes when they were in Boston last week. Around ten o'clock last night I got a call from Jocelyn, who told me that she was at a Smoking Popes show in North Carolina. I told her to have fun & to tell me about it.
Twelve thirty last night I got another phone call, again from Jocelyn. This time she says she's in line to get a shirt signed & do I want to talk to the band? I said okay! forgetting that I tend to be wicked awkward on the phone. Jocelyn gave her phone to Eli [at least I think it was Eli - he didn't identify himself]. He said hi, I said hi. I told him I didn't see the band in Boston because I didn't know about the show until it was too late. Eli told me that was a lame excuse. I agreed. He tried to make me feel better by saying that the Boston show was terrible, the worst on the tour. He must have missed the sarcasm when I replied by saying, "See, then I'm glad I missed it," because he then informed me that he was just saying that. He told me to keep up with the web site & to come see them in Boston when they came back next year & he gave the phone back to Jocelyn.
I told Jocelyn that the conversation was kind of awkward because, really, it was. But she was going to get Josh to sign her t-shirt, too, & she wanted to know if I wanted to talk to Josh as well. Of course I wanted to talk to Josh, so when Jocelyn went up to him, she told him that her friend from Massachusetts was on the phone & that she [meaning me] didn't go see them when they were in Boston last week. She gave the phone to Josh, who said hello & asked who he was speaking to. I told him he was speaking to Bern & he told me he was Josh. I told him that my friend [Jocelyn] made me sound like a terrible person, that I just didn't want to go see them in Boston. He told me that it was okay, that he understood that I was gravely ill, bedridden, & in need of a kidney transplant. Of course. He forgave me for not going to the show & I thanked him for his generosity. He told me they'd be back in Boston next year & told me to make sure to see them then. We said goodbye & he gave the phone back to Jocelyn.
In short, Jocelyn wins my Favorite Person of the Week Award.
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hahaha, that's kickass. I love when stuff like that happens. I have a bunch of autographed stuff that my ex got signed for me cause I'm too chicken to talk to bands.
bockbockbock(that's me trying to make chicken noises to make fun of myself)