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Date Posted: 22:47:39 11/30/08 Sun
Author: DM
Subject: White Trash invades WRO Phoenix Az

White Trash Invades Irish Dance Competition

If you have never been to a Feis, or Irish dance competition you have definitely missed out on a rare experience.

Unlike many competitions you find yourself surrounded with children of all ages dressed in elaborate dresses, with costs averaging around $2,000.00 each. For the boys the proper attire is nothing less than shirt and ties. For those like me in which I have one boy and three girls dancing you can bet it is a challenge.

But more importantly than the dresses, is the atmosphere of which has always impressed me. Not only are the children experiencing a unique form of education, but you also find most of the parents are truly dedicated to promoting good behavior and a polite attitude amongst the children, as well as to the adults and judges.

Usually you find parents are busy insuring the dresses are in perfect form, wigs are in place, and the dads who attend these events usually are checking to see if the investment into their children’s future has yielded the results intended.

In short, this is not the beer guzzling, screaming from the sideline’s crowd you find in junior soccer, football, or baseball for that matter.

But this year at the Western Regional competition in Phoenix, Arizona we have seen a drastic change in the populous. In short the “White Trash” crowd has infiltrated Irish dance.

As I sat back and watched one incident after another I was amazed at how the somewhat elegant crowd was being reduced to nothing more than a weekend at the desert, beer cans in hand, rude and foul mouthed teenagers, with ignorant mothers watching their children’s rude behavior, condoning and defending it.

One 70 year old woman was trying to watch her grandson collect his award for his first successful competition at this level only to be called an “Old B-tch” (Female Dog) for asking the children to move out of the way.

This altercation soon reduced itself to the a war of words between the mother of the lovely trollop with the foul mouth and the 70 year old woman, of which was being accused of being rude to a snot nosed brat, a minor if you will.

All the idiot mother could say was that they were nice girls. B.S.

It was sad to see a parent so ignorant of her child’s behavior, and so willing to defend it with such narrow mindedness, suggesting a woman with more years on either of them as being rude in just wanting to watch her grandson get an award.

When the confrontation was over I casually asked the elderly lady where she had traveled from for this event, I was told CA.

A long way to go to meet a future Pole Dancer and her mom.

In yet another incident I was honored to witness a Drunk of the Month Club member get into a vendor’s face for absolutely nothing. As this event fell into play a parent was holding a glass filled with his favorite booze. He then decided to place it on the table of the vendor of which the vendor still had goods on the table of which he was concern could get damaged if the drink was knocked over or spilled.

The vendor simply asked this lounge lizard if he could remove the drink from the table. But to the vendors surprise this clown decided to start poking the vendor in the chest with his finger, threatening the vendor and behaving in an imposing nature, as if he was someone or something of importance.

Stunning!

From parents ripping up vendor flooring claiming it to be in the way, to parents being rude and obnoxious this was by far the lowest class group of people I have ever seen at one of these events.

Now I must add that not all of the people were rude but as is always the case in this world it takes just a few from the trailer park to ruin a good thing.

So here is my suggestion to the “White Trash” crowd, if you are going to attend these events and have your little Lulu or Billy Bob dance I suggest the family take an etiquette course covering manners and respect for others.

In addition please realize these events are supposed to be for the children, not a chance to stay in a nice resort where stealing the towels and ashtrays as well as peeing in the pool is frowned upon, not a privilege.

If all of this it too difficult to comprehend then I suggest you hit the nearest pawn shop and sell the dress, sign up for soccer, break out the ice chest and fill it with your favorite beer and snacks, head for the nearest park, plant your butt on a lawn chair, scream at your kids for an hour or so, and if all goes well suffer from sun stroke.

Oh, and do not forget to paint your face and take your large floppy foam hat and floppy foam #1 finger.
In short, Get Lost.

DM

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