I got flipped off last night

After work last evening, I joined Mrs. O at Sherman Square Park in downtown Coeur d’Alene for the annual performance of Meet Revolver, the Beatles tribute band from Spokane. About midway through the second set, a bunch of my fellow oldtimers sitting in the center of the jammed park space were upset when a twentysomething woman in a red top and black pants plopped on a boulder in front of us, blocking our view. In the growing darkness, one codger yelled — well, said in a voice louder than usual — for the woman to move. That encouraged a female codger 2 rows in front of me to chime in, “You’re blocking our view.” When the Woman on the Boulder realized that Seasoned Citizens were addressing her, she pointed the middle finger of her left hand over her shoulder at them. Which hushed the angry crowd of Geritol users to mumbles among themselves. Before the third set, the Woman on the Boulder returned with a chair to sit in front of the rock, no longer blocking anyone’s view. So she saved faced. No one was harmed. And the band played on.