Friday 20 August 2010

Dice game concert?


What do you do when you get to the entrance door to a free concert? Well normally you enter- except last night's outdoor "free" concert had a pleasant surprise for us. The story went like this: A polish singer named Timon is singing a free concert near the river. I thought well Polish music concert? Why not, I may not understand a word but it's cool to go to an outdoor event. In Beirut unfortunately most events are indoors, and the summer festival well are summer, and that means you are exposed to sometimes 30 degrees at night with up to 95% HUMIDITY. I had had enough of being in the smokey bar scene in Beirut, so I went. As we got to the door,( well it was more like a fence) ,two girls asked us to toss a dice. The lower you score the better; because it is simply how much you would pay. So the dilemma was that if in general you are an unlucky person, then you know at this particular game you will actually score as high as the max 12 points, and then you will pay 12zł the equivalent of 4$. Which is fair if you thought about the nice spot, and the music. But what itches you is the fact that you were told that it is a free concert. After not having much choice in the matter, and holding the line in front of about 17 Polish people. I tossed the dice on the tiny slippery table where they also had 2 plastic cups one for change and the other had paper money, a piece of paper on which they wrote the score which translated to money, but the dice fell straight to the floor. I go into this to explain that it is not like you are actually gambling on a nice green velour casino table. The next toss I score 3. "HIHAAAAAAAAAA". I pay 1$ for my entrance. Dominika was much luckier, she scored 12, and unfortunately payed the max amount the dice obligated of 12 big ones ( well it was 4 dollars).
Anyhow lovely experience, only to top it with a cherry, the band's van broke down 30-km outside Warsaw. So we waited in the cold for a good 2 hours. By that time the band showed up, quickly unloaded all their instruments, and the concert kicked off, with very little enthusiasm I am afraid. Thinking back about this situation, I believe it is really a great concept to gamble your way in for a concert which the artist is unknown to you, for once if the music was good, and your dice was bad, then it would have been a truly thrilling hand.

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