At the first UAC show about a year ago, I had a bunch of friends in from out of town that were staying at my house. After the show was over, we were all dying to get out of there so we could go party at my place but we had to wait two hours for the band to pack up.
Then after the second UAC show, we cleaned up everything in the hall and we were stuck waiting again. I talked to the band and said I could either stand there tapping my foot and looking at my watch and asking them to hurry up every two minutes or they could turn off the lights and lock up after they were done loading out. They agreed the latter would work better for everyone so that\'s what we did and everything was fine the next day.
So on Saturday night I figured we\'d do the same thing. When I was leaving I asked the band to do a once over before they left and they said ok.
Yesterday around noon, I was asleep but I got a voicemail from Paul who is my contact at the UAC. He is normally a very relaxed peaceful guy but he was yelling for a few minutes straight about what went down the night before.
By the time I woke up and turned on my phone it was around 4pm and I had another voicemail from him saying he went down to see it himself and was cleaning up the scene. So I went down to check it out and help him clean up.
Apparently some moron decided to break into the closet and take the mirrors that are used for dance classes there outside. They dragged them all out into the snow and left them there this morning. This was no accident. I looked at what they would have had to go through to get them outside and it was no easy process so I\'m guessing it was more than one person.
The mirrors are worth thousands of dollars altogether. Only one of them was broken, but others were damaged in the snow. Hopefully I\'ll only have to replace the one.
I was going to make a post about this last night but I was so livid that I held off until I calmed down a bit. And I was also hoping that someone was just wasted when they did this and would come forward after they sobered up and offer to reimburse me for the damages.
Needless to say, this was NOT what I wanted to have to deal with when I woke up hungover. I was ashamed and embarrassed to be the one who was held responsible for this juvenille bullshit when I had to go down there last night and be held accountable for the damages.
Paul told me that he had no idea how much a new mirror will cost. And I don\'t know either. But they can\'t be cheap. I\'m sure I\'ll find out soon enough.
He said that the lady who teaches dance gets upset about little things like chairs being left out in her way in the closet and is kind of anal about her stuff being left alone. So now Paul is going to catch heat from her which is just not acceptable. She also pays lots of money to him to have her classes there and keep her belongings in his closet so he\'s worried she might decide to have them somewhere else from now on after SAT.
Anyways, I don\'t want to go off on a rant. But I\'m still in shock about this whole situation.
The thing is...it wouldn\'t be such a big deal if it was a broken window or a busted table or something. I know people get drunk at parties and accidents happen. But this was different. Someone went out of their way to do this. And that\'s what really bothers me.
I walked out of the show on SAT thinking that I was down a few hundred bucks but I didn\'t really care. I figured everyone had fun and that\'s what matters. And I thought maybe I\'d throw another UAC show six months from now once I\'d saved up a bit. Even if I ended up paying more than everyone else for these shows at least we always have a great night in a cozy venue.
But now that is obviously no longer a possibility. We burned our bridges at the UAC. That\'s probably what bums me out the most.
