Tuesday, April 16, 2013

#12- Land of the Late


I pride myself on my punctuality. Time is valuable, you either use it or lose it, and I usually prefer using it...  But hold on there common sense and logic! Lebanon's got something else in mind! If you're Lebanese you'll know what I mean, but if you're not I'll just be blunt about it: the people of Lebanon just don't get time. They don't! It is a bizarre and unusual enigma that baffles them to this day.

If I had a penny for every gig I've been to where they couldn't start till an hour after the planned time because nobody's shown up yet, I would design an air pressure-based gun that fires pennies and just run amok. I've always said that if I myself had an event, I'd just let it happen according to schedule, regardless of who shows up on time, but then again, you'd be the one at loss here. You're at the mercy of the public, so all you can do is wait... and reload your Penny Pistol 9000.