Over the last few weeks, I have attended quite a few school spring concerts. Performers in the concert ranged from kindergarten through eighth grade and were all very well behaved. However, the amount of inappropriate behaviors witnessed by people in attendance who qualify as adults needs to be addressed.

Let's go over some basic concert etiquette. Feel free to share this with the dummies in your life.

It is not appropriate to answer your phone. I don't care if its your mother, answering the phone during a school concert, or any school function, is inappropriate. Let it go to voice mail. The world will not end.

It is not appropriate to record the entire concert on your iPad. Your iPad is freakin HUGE! I can not see around it, Let's be serious, you can't zoom close enough on an iPad to make a video worth watching. Leave it at home.

It is not appropriate to say "Who the fuck is that?" when school administrators are talking. This should be self explanatory but apparently it isn't. In fact, you should refrain from cussing at all school functions. Odds are that if you came to more school functions you probably would know the speaker.

It is not appropriate to take your misbehaving toddler to the lobby and then let him run and squeal as if he is in the middle of a soccer field. This may shock you, but we can still hear him. If your child can not sit still for 90 minutes they are not invited.

It is not appropriate to check your Facebook, to text your dad, or to play candy crush during the show. You can unplug for 90 minutes. If not, you have a problem.

It is not appropriate to yell anything during the concert. Not "turn on the mike" or "way to go, Jack!" or "We love you, monkey." Just clap, like everyone else.

It is not appropriate to leave once your child is done performing. If your kid is in the orchestra and they played first, you need to keep your butt in that chair until my band student is done playing. You are not allowed to leave because that is rude.

To summarize, turn off your electronic devices, be quiet and stay in your seat. If we all did this, the concert would be even more enjoyable.

It's Friday High Five time and for today's list I've compiled five reasons why I do not like the cable guy.  As I posted yesterday, I've been having internet and phone problems for the last few days and then yesterday everything shut down.

This is what transpired:

Arrival time:  I was told they would be here between 9-12; after missing yoga and a lunch date with a friend, my cell phone rings at 11:55; "Hi, I'm the cable guy.  Are you still having problems?"  What a stupid question.  He doesn't get to the house until 12:30

Attire:  He is dressed in work boots and shorts and his underwear are hanging out.  They have super mario on them.  Seriously?  The guy is 30 something.  Why does he have super mario underwear and more importantly why can I see them.  I wanted to pull up his pants and tuck in his shirt.

Idiot:  He tells me the problem is definately in my house and that he needs to take the plate off the wall my cable is running through so he can check the wire and replace it if necessary.  The problem is the plate has no screws.  Get this, he needs my permission to break it.  Say what?

Clean up:  He breaks the wall plate and leaves the pieces.  He moves my husband's dresser and my bookshelve and doesn't return them.  He tells me that I can not have two TVs split off of one upstairs connector and disconnects the little TV in my craft room.

Charges:  After jacking up my wall, moving my furniture, disrupting my life for 1 1/2 hours he tells me that since the problem was inside the house I need to pay $29.95 for the service call or I can sign up for a maintenance plan for $3.95 for the rest of my life or however long I decide to have this jackass cable company.  Hmmmm.....that's a real tough call.

How was your afternoon?  Here's hoping you have a great holiday weekend.

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