Cell phones lighting up a concert
It used to be you'd go to a concert and see dozens of flickering lighters.
Ah, those days are long gone my friend.
Case in point was a concert we attended at the Greensboro Coliseum last night.
The cell phone has replaced the lighter at concerts. Dozens of people were holding up them up, but not as a form of salute, but to take pictures, apparently ignoring this clearly stated message.
It wasn't enforced, although you'd have to be blind not to seem them, what with their lit-up screens being raised in the air to grab that perfect shot of the stage.
Then again, I can't imagine concert security dragging some middle-age man out of the concert because he was - the horror! - taking poor quality photos from a cell phone camera at a concert that's about joy and peace and all that good stuff.
But as one music-theme Web site points out, people have been using cell phones at concerts for years.
Update: We left early, but looks like we missed some fireworks.