Current mood:

silly

Bathroom run-ins
OK, just to be clear, this is not a Larry Craig (Senator for Idaho) kind of bathroom run-in story :)

Friday night naomitraveller and I went to Freight and Salvage to see Girlyman.

Just before the concert began, I popped into the bathroom only to run into one of the Girlyman band members while I was washing my hands. I fortunately didn't do anything stupid (it helped that it was the girlier of the girls, not the really incredibly cute butch one - I might have just fainted if it were the butch one), just smiled and said "hi."

Similarly a few years back (post planomatic - were you with me when this happened?), I saw Dar Williams perform at Freight and Salvage, and again, just before the show started, headed into the bathroom and lo and behold, there was Dar Williams washing her hands in the sink next to the one I was washing my hands in. Again, I think I managed not to do anything stupid, but I was really excited to be so close to one of my favorite musicians.

Now, Freight and Salvage is going to be moving to a new building in downtown Berkeley sooner than later, so I asked one of the staff after the concert Friday if the musicians would have their own bathroom, and that I hoped not because I now had not one, but two really cool run-in with musician stories.

The staff person, with absolutely *no* regard for my excitement explained that in the new building the musicians would have their own bathrooms. "But I won't have any more cool bathroom stories!" I complained. Again, without pity the staff person replied that the musicians needed their own bathroom because as it was now they had to wait in line with everyone else...

OK, I guess if you put it that way, it makes sense. I'm looking forward to the new building, but I'm hoping I can catch a couple of more concerts at F&S before they move to see if I can get one more bathroom run-in story...