I went to my daughter’s Christmas Choir Concert last night. The amount of talent in that room was astounding. They sounded phenomenal. It went something like this….
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
(blip blip bleeeeep, “die zombie diee”)
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.
(bzzz bzzzz, blip blip blip, “look at this dad” bleepppbleeep” “Shh, turn it down” shuffling noises follow)
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names
they never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
(doink doink, zipppzipp, dink dink dink…”yes! alright!” “Shhh”)
Then one foggy Christmas eve (bizzzzzzz)
Santa came to say:
“Rudolph with your nose so bright (blurpblurpbleeeep)
won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”
Then how the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee (yippee)
“Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
you’ll go down in history.”
(“look, I got it!” beep beep bleeeepp”)
What were those other sounds you ask? Oh, it was kid next to me playing his friggin Nintendo DS. Through. The. Whole. Concert! He looked all of 8 yrs old. I think an 8 yr old can sit quietly through an hour and a half long concert. But obviously his parents thought it was “easier” to let him play video games. Good grief! Teach the kid some manners. It’s RUDE to attend an event and not even watch. What is WITH parents anyway? We taught our girls to sit quietly for events like those. We occasionally brought a book or pad of paper for them to draw on for those times when we had nothing to do but wait (ie Dr appt or something). But this was a concert. Great Christmas music sung by some very talented kids. There were even some audience sing alongs too. Come on people. Leave the toys at home and teach your kids how to behave properly at a public event. It’s not that hard. Im just sayin…
