Attendance at Inauguration will be huge

[graylocks]

my friend from wisconsin who is planning on driving in just called. she says forget about blue staters getting tickets; her rep has received over 10,000 requests and is no longer putting names on the list. my reps here in georgia did say i was at least on the list but didn't mention how large the list is at this point. i told her to try Wyoming...

[OWC Jamie]

[AlphaDog]

rgG wrote:
[quote=graylocks]
[quote=rgG]
You could not pay me enough to be there. I can't take crowds like that. To me that would be like putting someone who is claustrophobic in a small closet.

I hope everyone has fun, but I'll just watch it on TV.

guess you never made it to any huge demonstrations in the last 30 years, eh?

i hope to be there so i can stand with my son at a footstep of history. i was too young for King's March on Washington though i could have gone if my mom had taken me.


Yeah, I don't even like to go to big concerts or sporting events. I would have to help out a demonstration by making posters for others to carry. Each to his/her own talents.
rgG and I have so much in common. I'll help her make the posters, if we can do it someplace quiet and uncrowded. If there are going to be more than five people there, I'm out.

The only demonstrations I go to are those at Costco on Fridays, when they give away food.

[swampy]

Gutenberg wrote:
Can't see why you would watch such an unfolding tragedy at all, swampy. Are you also attracted to train wrecks? :o

You guys keep telling me it's history being made. Why wouldn't I want to watch?

[Lux Interior]

swampy wrote:
You guys keep telling me it's history being made. Why wouldn't I want to watch?

Because you don't believe anything else that we tell you.

[rgG]

AlphaDog wrote:
rgG and I have so much in common. I'll help her make the posters, if we can do it someplace quiet and uncrowded. If there are going to be more than five people there, I'm out.

The only demonstrations I go to are those at Costco on Fridays, when they give away food.

And, I'll bring my own markers that I won't share with anyone else because they will mush down the tips. This is not because I am getting old and crotchety, I have always hated lending my art supplies to other people.

[mrbigstuff]

I'm tentatively planning to go and bring the little ones if possible. It does depend on the weather forecast, though.

[swampy]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=swampy]
You guys keep telling me it's history being made. Why wouldn't I want to watch?

Because you don't believe anything else that we tell you.
Guess I'm not that easy to brainwash, am I?

[TLB]

I lived in DC in 1993 at the time of Clinton's first inauguration. Just the preparations so disrupted the city, our offices were closed the two days prior. The actual day was a federal holiday for the DC region. With the availability of real-time media feeds today, you'd be hard pressed to entice me to be participate in real life, no matter how historical the day may be.

[the_poochies]

I've received a few calls today for people looking for tickets. Most of them seem to be little old African-American ladies who probably remember life under Jim Crow.

I attended Clinton's inauguration in 1997. Your ticket gave you a pass to stand on a certain section of the Mall. Big video screens were present. That night, there were Inaugural balls all around town. You'd stand around in your tux, eat rubber chicken, get in line for the cash bar and wait for the President and First Lady to show up (we waited until 2 am), make some insipid, brief quip, dance and then leave. Then everyone rushes for the coat check.

The parties around DC that weekend were much more fun and had free food and drink.