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Tonight I took my sister to see the Sixers play the Rockets. The sixers actually blew the rockets out which you know is pretty unbelievable if you are following how terrible they are, I mean, how good can you be when Andre Iguodala is your star.

A couple or random things that really annoyed me tonight, they basically all relate to people not knowing where their seats are, and rather than finding out the proper way, they have no regard for inconveniencing others. The first example came just after tip off, my sister and I were in my seats on the aisle and two big guys came and motioned that they wanted us to stand up so they could get in the row. Fine, we were eating, so we put our stuff aside and carefully stood up to let the guys by. They walked by and started walking through the row making everyone get up for them. Much to my surprise, they walked ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE ROW AND OUT THE OTHER SIDE. They then took a seat on the aisle of the next section over. ARE YOU KIDDING ME, I would explain more but I don’t think its needed. Someone else did something very similar a little later.

The next thing people do which is really annoying is standing aimlessly in aisles paying no attention to what is going on around them. I can’t imagine what goes on in these peoples minds…”Someone trying to get by me, who cares, i ain’t moving, someone whos view i’m blockign by standing here…who cares i aint moving, someone selling concessions who needs to get by, screw him I AINT MOVING” These people may be worse than the first type.

Tonight was dollar dog night which means they sold hot dogs at the bargain basement price of a dollar apiece. To promote the promotion, hip hop (the sixers mascot) and his crew of “hare raisers” came out to throw hot dogs into the stands. The craziest thing resulted, the crowd went NUTS for these dollar dogs, it was a bigger reaction than any the sixers got the entire game despite their high level of play. Not only is it weird for hot dogs to command such desire, but especially rolled up dirty hot dogs being thrust around a stadium by random guys, wow!!

A final thought, I was very impressed with hip hop. I think being a mascot requires a very special skill set that most people dont have. Not only does he have to be funny at all times while being appropriate, but he has to do all this without saying any words! How many people do you know that can do that? It really shows how much of communication is non verbal. I dont feel like proofreading so i’m just going to post this.