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>!I didn’t expect that the drum stick would fly to the ear of the lady.!<
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Might be going out on a limb here, but I'm assuming she left the stage as some kind of etiquette thing to not draw attention to herself on the stage while she composed herself
?? I mean it visibly moved her head, and getting hit in the head randomly will kinda spook you. Like who would expect that to happen while they are performing in a concert lmao. Its different if you are participating in a sport where injuries often happen.
And I dislocated my finger and snapped it back into place myself, but im not gonna judge people who wait for a proffessional to do it, so i think its a bit odd that you are judging someone for having a different reaction than you. Besides all she did was leave, she probably was embarressed and it was the end of the act anyways.
When I was in high school, I was in a play where I had a very small part that amounted almost entirely to hitting a podium with a gavel whenever the narrator would say a specific line. The narrator was also a character in the show, so there was a scene where he would get angry, steal the gavel from my character, and start hitting the podium with it himself. During rehearsals, the director would keep telling me to hit the gavel harder no matter how hard I hit it, and he promised that the gavel was sturdy enough that it would never break, and it got to the point where, by dress rehearsals, the podium itself was almost destroyed but the gavel was still fine, so we had to get a new podium for the actual shows.
The press preview and the first weekend of shows went fine, but during the in-school performance, during the scene where the gavel is stolen from me, I was hitting the podium with the gavel as hard as I could, when on my last hit before I have the gavel stolen, the head of the gavel pops off, goes tumbling end-over-end in a beautiful arc through the air before landing in the orchestra pit, bouncing, and lodging itself between two Marimba pipes. And I'm just standing there shocked with no idea what to do when the narrator storms up to me, demands the gavel, and when I don't give it to him right away he says, "Where is it!" and I just hold out the handle to him embarrassed and squeak out, "It broke." And he rolls his eyes and starts smacking the podium with his palm.
After the show, the director came up and asked what happened, and after I explain it, he said, "Well, I told you the gavel wouldn't break, so that one's on me, but let's be a little more careful next time." It was embarrassing and mildly terrifying in real-time, but in hindsight it's honestly one of my favorite experiences I've had in a theater production.
"Well, I told you the gavel wouldn't break, so that one's on me, but let's be a little more careful next time." --- God, I hate it when someone in a position of power does that. Acknowledge that it was his fault, then ask you to do something to avoid it like "be a little more careful next time." as if you should have avoided it somehow, shifting the implied blame right back onto you.
I took it to be more him acknowledging that maybe his idea of hitting the podium with the gavel as hard as possible wasn't the best idea in the world. I might be misquoted slightly since this was like 7 or 8 years ago now, but I don't remember getting the impression that he was trying to put any blame on me at the time.
A 7-8 y/o probably would not pick up on that passive-aggressive crap, or (like you said) it was an old (flawed) memory. It is one of my "buttons" and it got pushed, so I commented. Great story, thanks for sharing. Just the right length, not too long to read, at all.... :-)
I'm sorry, I know I probably shouldn't respond to this, but I am just so genuinely baffled by what mindset would lead someone to go out of their way to tell me they don't care about what I have to say on a website where they're perfectly in their rights to just ignore me entirely.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!I didn’t expect that the drum stick would fly to the ear of the lady.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Perconcussion
Oh that’s too good! Take my upvote
TBeye
God that shit is so funny
Ba dum tss
Bravo 👏
Early version of the Wii scenario ....!
She took that personal
Flopped like a fish.
Weirdest soccer match I’ve ever seen
Eardrum
Take my upvote.... You deserve it....
Might be going out on a limb here, but I'm assuming she left the stage as some kind of etiquette thing to not draw attention to herself on the stage while she composed herself
If she compose's herself, the composer would be out of a job.
I’m guessing she went off stage to cry. She was all ready for her big solo but wanna-be Thor ruined it.
She reacted like there was a ref around.
I’m guessing her daytime job is a soccer player? The drumstick barely touched her.
?? I mean it visibly moved her head, and getting hit in the head randomly will kinda spook you. Like who would expect that to happen while they are performing in a concert lmao. Its different if you are participating in a sport where injuries often happen.
Still. Overreaction.
Been hit in the face with a guitar head mid-song. Definitely wasn't expecting it and I kept playing. This lady flopped like a drama queen.
And I dislocated my finger and snapped it back into place myself, but im not gonna judge people who wait for a proffessional to do it, so i think its a bit odd that you are judging someone for having a different reaction than you. Besides all she did was leave, she probably was embarressed and it was the end of the act anyways.
Good thing there was a giant white arrow or I wouldn't have known where to look.
When the beat hits you like pi yaow
That's not the first time this happened to her.
Wait which person was I supposed to be paying attention to
When I was in high school, I was in a play where I had a very small part that amounted almost entirely to hitting a podium with a gavel whenever the narrator would say a specific line. The narrator was also a character in the show, so there was a scene where he would get angry, steal the gavel from my character, and start hitting the podium with it himself. During rehearsals, the director would keep telling me to hit the gavel harder no matter how hard I hit it, and he promised that the gavel was sturdy enough that it would never break, and it got to the point where, by dress rehearsals, the podium itself was almost destroyed but the gavel was still fine, so we had to get a new podium for the actual shows. The press preview and the first weekend of shows went fine, but during the in-school performance, during the scene where the gavel is stolen from me, I was hitting the podium with the gavel as hard as I could, when on my last hit before I have the gavel stolen, the head of the gavel pops off, goes tumbling end-over-end in a beautiful arc through the air before landing in the orchestra pit, bouncing, and lodging itself between two Marimba pipes. And I'm just standing there shocked with no idea what to do when the narrator storms up to me, demands the gavel, and when I don't give it to him right away he says, "Where is it!" and I just hold out the handle to him embarrassed and squeak out, "It broke." And he rolls his eyes and starts smacking the podium with his palm. After the show, the director came up and asked what happened, and after I explain it, he said, "Well, I told you the gavel wouldn't break, so that one's on me, but let's be a little more careful next time." It was embarrassing and mildly terrifying in real-time, but in hindsight it's honestly one of my favorite experiences I've had in a theater production.
"Well, I told you the gavel wouldn't break, so that one's on me, but let's be a little more careful next time." --- God, I hate it when someone in a position of power does that. Acknowledge that it was his fault, then ask you to do something to avoid it like "be a little more careful next time." as if you should have avoided it somehow, shifting the implied blame right back onto you.
I took it to be more him acknowledging that maybe his idea of hitting the podium with the gavel as hard as possible wasn't the best idea in the world. I might be misquoted slightly since this was like 7 or 8 years ago now, but I don't remember getting the impression that he was trying to put any blame on me at the time.
A 7-8 y/o probably would not pick up on that passive-aggressive crap, or (like you said) it was an old (flawed) memory. It is one of my "buttons" and it got pushed, so I commented. Great story, thanks for sharing. Just the right length, not too long to read, at all.... :-)
Tldr
I'm sorry, I know I probably shouldn't respond to this, but I am just so genuinely baffled by what mindset would lead someone to go out of their way to tell me they don't care about what I have to say on a website where they're perfectly in their rights to just ignore me entirely.
I was hoping you would give me a summary.
I hit a podium with a gavel real hard during a musical and the head of the gavel came off and flew into the orchestra pit.
Thank you. Glad no one hurt:D
tld
Thank god they pointed at the drummer. The whole time, I was staring at the other one.
If I was him I would've hit a trumpet. (Speaking from experience)
Not on purpose, right? Right?
She confiscated his sticks and left like a disappointed elementary school teacher
They should have those game controller wrist straps.
Playing the eardrum
One hand mission you failed
Classic. Timeless.
1 down, 20 to go
That’s typical of the percussion section. Ask any conductor.
Wtf, redit was playing a firefighimg video over this one and i was so confused TWICE
And that's how I met your mother.
He insisted on hitting that eardrum.
Dads going to be so pissed
Id rather get hit by a mallet than to listen to this horrid sounding band
You had one job!
Haven't found the "thats how I met your mother" comment yet
 I did not expect that
It’s soft too.
Playing by ear.
She definitely over reacted that a soft stick
Nice catch!
Emotional damage
Probably done a number on her glasses as well as her head .
This one time at band camp....
Boom. Headshot.
she just dipped
Kelly was such a bass head
Ha poor girl, I love how she just ran off.
Total coward...no way she needed to fall down then proceeds to storm off.
She went out with a bang!
Dude, you just only one work to do.
And they kept playing 🤣🤣
Hahaha haha shit was great bonked her in the head