Ummmm sort of\u2026except I\u2019m not wealthy, or a guy, I live in Oklahoma City, I\u2019m not a racist\u2026.Okay, I\u2019m not Spike Lee, but I watched a basketball game like him on New Years Eve, right there courtside. I was close enough to be able to read the players\u2019 tattoos, now that\u2019s<\/span> close.<\/p>\n The Computer Guy\u2019s boss gave us his tickets to go watch the Oklahoma City Thunder (our new NBA team) play the Golden State Warriors. I not sure where Golden State is exactly. I learned all the states back in school and that wasn\u2019t one of them, so I\u2019m thinking they\u2019re from California. They could just call themselves the California Warriors. We wouldn\u2019t make them feel bad about being from there. Okay, we wouldn\u2019t tease them to tears about it. I think they are the only team in the NBA worse<\/span> than the Thunder. That made it a pretty good night to go since our guys had a decent chance of winning, for once.<\/p>\n They were good tickets, and by good I mean great. They were in the front row, so our feet were actually on the wooden floor or court or whatever you call that thing. Oh, yeah, I\u2019m not a basketball person. I\u2019m short and they don\u2019t let us short people play it, so I don\u2019t know much (anything) about basketball. My husband on the other hand loves it with the passion of someone who was the star in high school but blew out his knees and couldn\u2019t play in college but would have been great if he could have\u2026\u2026I like to people watch, so I enjoyed it anyway. There were also some moments of the game that were pretty good. I wasn\u2019t a total waste of a good seat.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know if those people on the floor get special perks, honey, they do. We got to park in the special VIP lot which was so close to the arena that we didn\u2019t even really need to put on our coats. The wind and cold didn\u2019t even get a chance to touch us before we were inside. That was also due to the private VIP entrance that let us skip the line and crowd out front. Mingle with the people? Horrors! We got special VIP bracelets that told everyone that we were special. Some really nice lady showed us to our seats and asked if we had a drink order. Seriously. The people in the front don\u2019t go for concessions. They get a waitress. Coolness. We also had a little lounge area where we could hang out with the other front row people before, during, and after the game. Again, no waiting or talking to other lesser folks. But the best part was we got the good bathrooms!!! No nasty stadium sporting event potties for us! They were pretty fancy and spic and span clean! I\u2019m pregnant and was in there a lot. I appreciate a nice bathroom. <\/p>\n The amenities of front row living rock. Too bad the people there don\u2019t seem to enjoy it. They don\u2019t dress for a basketball game; they dress to impress each other. Why else would they be wearing Ferragamo shoes and their fancy Rolex watch? Alright that was the lady next to me, but she didn\u2019t look weird next to the front row people. They also work really hard at looking bored which makes them boring. They don\u2019t cheer. They don\u2019t dance. They don\u2019t clap. I\u2019m not sure why they were there. I think it might have been for fun to sit a few rows back with the crazy college kid in his cape, mask and body paint. I\u2019ll bet he\u2019s a hoot!<\/p>\n It was really fun to try out someone else\u2019s life for a little while, to pretend that we are the kind of people who sip champagne at a basketball game and sneak in and out of the side entrance. We would jump at the chance to sit in those seats again. But those front row people better watch out, because the next time I sit with them I\u2019m buying a foam finger and a goofy beer hat and jumping up to dance the \u201cYMCA\u201d with the rest of the loonies. The loonies are my people and I\u2019ll bet they\u2019d love to see one of their own make it to the front row.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ummmm sort of\u2026except I\u2019m not wealthy, or a guy, I live in Oklahoma City, I\u2019m not a racist\u2026.Okay, I\u2019m not Spike Lee, but I watched a basketball game like him on New Years Eve, right there courtside. I was close enough to be able to read the players\u2019 tattoos, now that\u2019s close. The Computer Guy\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n