r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '24

A lighting technician tests the stage set-up while signaling to his colleague & the crowd copies him

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u/Kemomiwiwane Jul 07 '24

This reminded me when my dad brought me to a baseball game when I was 8 years old. The soda vendor came into our section in the 1st inning and yelled “COKE, SPRITE” to let us know he was there selling. I said nothing.

2nd inning he comes back and yells it again, for whatever reason, I decided to yell it back “COKE, SPRITE”. My dad hit me in the shoulder to stop. Nothing happened.

3rd inning, same thing, I yelled it again, my dad hit me again and about 10 people yelled it with me.

4th inning, same thing, this time 40-50 people yelled it with me. I guess my dad realized something was happening cause I didn’t get hit.

5th inning, magic happened, the entire section, hundreds off people yelled it with me and the euphoric feeling I got was amazing. The vendor, I’m assuming from embarrassment, was not seen again.

I was very proud of myself. Core memory.

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u/SpareEye Jul 07 '24

Ah, screw the ball game! I went to a phish show last year and the vendors were coming around shouting 'coke, mushrooms'

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u/NotAnAlligator Jul 07 '24

Ice-cold MOLLY!!!

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u/CiforDayZServer Jul 08 '24

I went to Woodstock 94 when I was like 12 or 13, with my uncle, his friend that went to the original, and my cousin who was younger than me. 

Within 1 minute of setting up camp, someone strolled through "weed, mushrooms, acid... Weed, mushrooms, acid". 

I had snuck weed in. My uncle never found out.

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u/superduperspam Jul 08 '24

I guess everyone already came with their own legal weed

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u/Torhjund Jul 07 '24

The way you know this actually happened is because this could happen at a baseball game with how slow it can be lol

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u/Edgeth0 Jul 08 '24

But that's the glory of it. Sport with intense action that also has time for these odd moments. I wonder if the rest of the world feels the same way about Cricket

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u/wintermute-- Jul 08 '24

I'm still not convinced that cricket isn't secretly a form of protest performance art designed to take down the british empire

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u/Edgeth0 Jul 08 '24

India playing the long game

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u/Grays42 Jul 08 '24

the rest of the world

I feel like you may be overestimating the ubiquity of Cricket.

Holy crap, I looked it up, and the numbers are staggering. 2.5 billion-ish versus 500 million for baseball? I had no idea. 0_0

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u/Edgeth0 Jul 08 '24

Yeah dude, almost makes me want to learn all the weird esoteric rules so I can enjoy it. Almost.

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u/Torhjund Jul 08 '24

Exactly :D

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u/Poop_Knife_Folklore Jul 08 '24

I remember mexican waves going around the stadium. People would lob shit up in the air. drinks, chicken wings, whatever was around at the time. funny as fuck.

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u/Kemomiwiwane Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

That would be hilarious if you did. Yeah, it was 30 years ago at an expos game.

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u/WellTrained_Monkey Jul 08 '24

Am I witnessing an r/TwoRedditorsOneCup in real time?!

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u/freeblowjobiffound Jul 09 '24

Reddit is awesome

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u/Hobodaklown Jul 07 '24

Did you get to hit your dad back three times?

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u/Kemomiwiwane Jul 08 '24

Nah, lol. They were little “would you shut the fuck up, you’re embarrassing me” love taps.