Cheap Seats? Bring Binoculars!

Every time I ever went to a sporting event, it seems like I got bad seat. Not that I would have known the difference, but when you can't see what's going on due to distance or a giant column in front of you or a terrible vantage point, you have to rely on the people around you or the big screen TV or the sports announcer to figure out what's going on. Might as well be at home in front of the TV.

Once we went to see the Smothers Brothers in a huge auditorium. Our seats were in the balcony. I realized once the Brothers came on stage that they looked awfully small; in fact, you couldn't tell Tommy from Dicky except for the bass and the guitar and the yoyo. However, the cheap seat crowd came prepared. We never thought to bring binoculors, but everybody else did.

Lesson learned.