You're going out to a big show at CN Centre. When you first heard about the show, months ago, that's when you were excited to go. It's Jerry Seinfeld, after all.
Now it's Thursday night, you're tired from a bear of a work week and it's finally time to go to the show.
"Why would he come here on a Thursday? A Thursday!"
"We have to go, he's only here for one night."
"Ok, so we should eat before we go or we're going to be starving after!"
"Ok, so what should we eat? It's gotta be something fast because we can't be late - we don't want to miss the start of the show - so where should we go? We'll go somewhere fast."
"What are you going to wear? I think we should wear something nice."
"It doesn't matter what we wear, he's not going to see you, you're going to see him!"
"Ok, I'm going to wear my nice jacket with the standup collar. Where's your nice jacket?"
"Where's my hoodie?"
"It's hanging up beside your nice jacket that you're going to wear tonight!"
"Are you getting ready?"
"Yes, I'm getting ready."
"Are you ready?"
"I'm getting ready!"
See how your life sounds just like an episode of Seinfeld?
You go, you eat, you park, you find your seat.
You're settled in your seat and now other people with seats in your aisle want past you in your row.
They've come after you're seated and since you're sitting, you're settled, but now they're seating, which is unsettling your sitting.
You're thinking, I will move my knees to the side but I'm not getting up from my sitting. Ok, maybe I'll lift up the folding seat and sit on the bit that's tilted up - but I'm not quitting sitting.
They came after me.
I came first.
I am sitting.
And then out comes Jerry Seinfeld and completely blows your mind because he quickly recaps everything you just went through to get here, exactly how it happened, right down to your thoughts. And you laugh hard because he is bang on with his observations of your life and apparently, you're just like the 4,900 other people at CN Centre because they're all laughing hard, too.
It's the whole premise for Seinfeld's success. His comedy is all about the little things that happen in our lives and our naughty thoughts about it all.
Seinfeld was on stage for about an hour and 20 minutes of straight fun.
Seinfeld said he's 59 years old, got married in his mid 40s and has three little kids. His comedy touches briefly on the littlest one coming to share his parents' bed at 4 a.m. and Seinfeld equates it with sleeping with a live goat in a laundry bag.
Fun for the whole family.
Opening act Mario Joyner, was also very funny. He is a black man and thanked us for taking care of the nine black people that live in Prince George. Observational humour continued throughout the night and was very well received.
Seinfeld is very active on stage. In my mind's eye, I thought the man many people call the greatest comedian in the world, would stay close to the microphone on its stand, but he didn't. His gestures were massive at times, his facial expressions cartoon-like and at one time he lay spread eagled on the stage, harkening a human's energy loss to that of his cell phone battery dying.
Seinfeld is a great story teller and finding the humour in life is what it's all about.
