Live Score and Bad Smell

[ateolf]

After work, I met Mary Beth up at the Park and we hung out at the pond for a little bit, watching the massive amount of ducks hanging out. Then we went up to Crosstown at night to see General Labor do a live score to Nosferatu. It was great and fun and a good time and all...but there was one thing that made it difficult for me to concentrate. So we get there right at the time doors are supposed to "open" but the theater was already pretty full (they had pushed the time a half hour back from what their standard time has always been for the film series, so I think a lot of people assumed it was still the old time...in fact I heard people behind me saying something along the lines of "wait, it doesn't start until 7:30?"). Anyway, we get seats in one of the good rows but at the end, which is fine. But a little bit into it, maybe fifteen minutes (not counting the false starts) the couple that's sitting next to us just gets up and leaves during the movie/performance. As they're leaving there's another couple coming in and the guy points to the just-vacated seats and says something I'm sure along the lines of, "those seats are now available" thinking he's being nice and all. So these new people come and sit down there and the guy who sits next to me just reeks. It smells so bad. I'm trying to ignore it throughout the rest of the most of the movie but it wasn't good. At a few times a bit of nausea almost started to hit me, like, I edges just up to it but it didn't get quite so bad. I thought if it'd get any worse I'd have to get up and go out or maybe just go get a seat in the front row or something. Mary Beth said she could smell it too but wasn't sure where it'd come from but she wasn't right next to the person so she at least had a little bit of a buffer. I was trying to place what the smell actually was and couldn't, but Mary Beth said she recognized it as the smell of unwashed hair. Afterwards we went and hung out at Art Bar for a little bit. I kinda just had to run out of that theater as quickly as possible. I recovered, okay!