I'll try to give the abridged version. 2 people fall in love, and decide to get married. They set an arbitary wedding date in June in the middle of the day because who wants to go to a wedding when it isn't 100 degrees outside? By virute of knowing these folks since I wa a kid, I get the honor of being an usher in this wedding. Little did they know what they would really be doing to me. Meanwhile, I'm living my life as a bachelor and not bothering anyone else, just hanging out at BS and watching the USA kick the shit out of some Group C. After all the elation of winning the group, this cold reality sets in. The wedding not only would ruin an otherwise boring Saturday afternoon in June, it would destroy me. So the options are... 1. Laptop in back row or lobby to watch on ESPN3 during the wedding. 2. Get people seated and slip out the back door, head next door to the bar. 3. DVR and try to avoid douchecanoes who will inevitably tell us the scores. 4. Murder/suicide 5. ??? Help please.
i pick 3....all you have to say is...it was a lovely wedding...and tell the bride she looked beautiful.
The morning of the wedding, sit in your car or another similarly enclosed space and get as many friends as possible to blow vuvuzelas directly into your ear. People might tell you the score, but you won't be able to hear 'em.
no way..its 2010..some drunk douche with a blackberry/iphone will give up the result before the entree comes out.
another question is..how much do you like the girl? do you think they are going to last..cause if she is a c$#t there will be another wedding lol
You can't compare a wedding and the World Cup. One is a really, really important moment but the World Cup is forever. For-ever! This won't happen again for at least four years. 2014. At the earliest. Qualification is hardly a sure thing though so maybe 8 years. 2018. Maybe 12 years. 2012. How many times will your friends have been married by then? So blow off the wedding. You can always find new friends. There is only one USA and only one 2010 Round of 16 match.
You're an usher. You tell people where to place their asses. If people can't figure out where to place their own damn asses, it's not your fault. OTOH, you could do both with the bar next door.
wedding starts at 2 (central) but i gotta be there at 11:30 for pictures. yes, 11:30, so there is no way i'd see any of the first half for sure. this situation couldn't be worse. well it could, i mean, i could have a disease or something, but you know what i mean. the problem is, my parents were best friends with this girls parents, so they would kill me if i tried to skip out somehow. im thinking of a way to delay the wedding. bomb threat at the church? water mane break? problem is, my parents know how much this means to my bro and i so they'd come to us first, lol. might just have to avoid the scores and DVR, and honestly if some idiot tells the score (inevitably it'd be someone who doesnt care about soccer but loves attention) I might fight them. and i would be justified, totally.
I'm in the same boat on Saturday (never mind this game should be played on Sunday.) This game will seem insignificant when the US is playing in the final. DVR it and watch in peace that evening. Enjoy the wedding.
Seems like #3 is your best bet. With a little work and some help from the happy couple, you might even be able to keep the d-bags at bay. At the rehearsal dinner tonight, mention the unfortunate timing of the game and that there might be plenty of people (include yourself in the "plenty of people" if you want) who are going to be there, but might want to not know the outcome of the game. Then you ask the bride and groom if they'd be cool with putting a "Spoiler Alert" note in with the program. Just a slip of paper that mentions how they're thrilled you're all there, but that some people might not want to know the outcome of the game, so don't be a putz and spout off about it, please. Everybody knows rule #1 of weddings is don't piss off the bride, so if her name is on it that should snap everybody into line. Offer to print up the notes yourself... go to Kinkos if you have to. Since you're one of the ushers you can stuff em in the program too. Have them mention something to the DJ too, so he doesn't make some mention of it and plays "Living in America" or something to celebrate the win. This might not prevent everything from going wrong anyway -- another stoppage time goal might mean you're hearing the bar next door in the church anyway, but maybe you have a fighting chance. Good luck.
And turn off your phone. You will get texts. I have tried to do this many times, and it hasn't worked. You find out the score some way or another, and even if you don't, if the other team scores first, you don't want to waste 2 hours so just find out the score anyways. Its what always happens to me. lol Good luck. I have a soccer game at the same time, but Im sick, so got lucky
Do your usher duty and then duck out. Say you have a stomach ache or something. Do not try to explain yourself as it will detract from their "big day". Be very discreet about it.
ESPN Mobile for sure. You're an usher, once the ceremony starts, sit yourself in the back and enjoy the game. Just don't shout anything out when we score
3 questions: 1. Who is your carrier? 2. What is your plan? 3. What kind of phone? If you have an iPhone the are multiple apps for watching it I know a few AT&T phones have live coverage idk about the others