Yes, I am going to brag on my kid a little. My wife and I went to see his college orchestra play. They were doing Verde’s requiem with the college men’s and women’s coral and a few vocal soloists. He plays cello, and should be first chair in my opinion, but I am his dad so I am bias. The piece is very dramatic in spots and is considered one of the best, thou I wouldn’t know a classic if it kicked me in the rear, but that is what I am told. There are seven or eight parts and in between each part the conductor will reset himself and maybe change the page of his music then look up and start the next section. It is a quiet moment where no one is making any noise or moving. This was the moment last night that someone’s iPhone started ringing! I know it was an iPhone by the default tone, the only other noise heard was the collective forehead slaps of the rest of the auditorium. Nothing says idiot like your phone going off in the middle of an orchestra performance, but I had a bit of a cheek squeezer when the phone went off and did what I always do, checked my iPhone to make sure that it was silenced. As much as I hated it we have all done something dumb in public, from here on referred to as DIP. Ever let some gas go just as everyone stopped talking? Ever tripped on the carpet or missed a step when entering or exiting a crowded theater? Maybe we haven’t done that dumb thing but we have all had our share of DIP. We all thought the guy with the phone was an idiot but I can’t be too hard on him, after all, the next time I am a DIP I would hope to get some of that same grace I am giving him returned.