Chicago addendum
Since Yoshi reminded me, I’ll talk a bit about a few of the people we saw at the Eddie Izzard show.
First is the poor girl who sat next to Yoshi. Anyone who has gone to do anything with me knows that I will, at some point, crack someone up. It’s just a matter of time. So me and Yoshi are going back and forth doing bits of Eddie Izzard skits and making fun of people. Finally the girl next to Yoshi can’t hold it in anymore and busts up. We make fun of some more people and she introduces herself. Her name is Laney and she is from Arkansas. She is graduating from UM-Columbia (Mizzou) in May in advertising. We talked a bit between the three of us. She was by herself and her friends were in the balcony above. That would suck. Guess she was lucky that she had friendly people next to her. Our common target of laughter was the following two though.
In the row directly in front of was a family of four. Assumably a mom and dad and their two kids, one boy and one girl. Pretty normal. Hehe, not these people. I think they thought they were animals. Seriously. The mom was the worst. She had on a white Eddie shirt and stonewashed grey jeans. But these were no ordinary jeans. They had something that looked like white rabbit fur all along the outside seams. With accessories. Attached to the back center belt loop was a foot long TAIL made out of what looked like matching white rabbit fur. It was an inch wide strip of fur that just dangeld from a small metal clip from her belt loop. Second worst was their young son. Wearing a futuristic motorcross style padded shirt wasn’t that big of a deal. The rat-tail (mini-mullet) was. From his basically normal looking hair cut sprung about 10 inches of dyed green hair from the base of his neck. The dad at first seemed normal but if you looked hard enough you could see the oddity. He had naturally kinky white hair and it looked a bit like Howie Mandel from the late 80s. However at the back of his neck was a miserable excuse of a tail. With his tight kinky hair it just came out as a puff ball like a cottontail rabbit. I felt sorry for the daughter. She seemed relatively normal. Halfway through the show she pulled her hair pack into a pony-tail but that is the only animal likeness I can give to her.
The other oddity that amused us was a man across the theater in one of those private boxes near the stage. He and his date/wife/escort/mistress (whatever) were in the front most row of seats. He was a large man. Large as in I’d estimate 300 to 350 pounds. Then his wardrobe. He wore a black shirt with a black leather vest over the shirt. Over that he wore a bright orange blazer with padded shoulders. Needless to say he would have stood out had he done nothing more than sit down. But obviously he had a friend in the audience. A friend sitting on the opposite side of the theaterin a balcony higher. How do I know this? Because the Big Man In Orange was yelling, mouthing words, waving, making hand/arm/body gestures and such to communicate to that person. At one point he must have gotten worn out and proceeded to give everyone in the theater his cell phone number. He held up his phone, then held up his fingers a number at a time till his friend got the idea and called him. Luckily this was all before the show as the BMIO was still walking about and using his arms to accentuate his talking on the phone. He must be Italian. Dunno. The other funny thing was his date/wife/escort/mistress (whatever) as she was probably all of a 100 pound blonde in a black dress. A huge contrast to the BMIO. I just hope she gets to be on top. The BMIO would crush her. *shudder*
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