Short People Should Really Stay In Front

I talked about the front row syndrome earlier, but that was from the perspective of someone who had never made it to the back row before. Now I have been in the back row, and I can say with a surety that short people really do belong on the front row.

As a short person I used to wonder how it felt to be on the back row of anything. Choir concerts, family pictures, I even wondered how people sit in the back row of a theater. It seemed so foreign intriguing my whole life, so when I actually ended up on the back row, I was slightly thrilled. The excited feeling soon wore off, after I realized that I was now literally behind a mountain of people.

When we first went over standing positions, I was on the second row, and everything was fine. We had gone through the entire program for dress rehearsal, but for some reason there were more than one or two people missing. All through dress rehearsal people were saying that there were a few people missing, but when we all got on stage, it was apparent that there were more than a few missing people.

As we all shuffled to our places I and the girl next to me noticed that people stopped moving, and we were not in the places that we were in during dress rehearsal. That's where things went a little awry. I'm sure the audience got a good chuckle out of the confused looks that we shared as we tried to figure out where to go. There were two empty spaces on the back row, so that's where we went.

The further back we went, the less we could see the conductor. The man next to me was at least a foot taller than me, and everyone around the girl and I literally made us disappear. We had to carefully angle ourselves, just to attempt to follow the conductor. The whole time I wished that the people in front of me would somehow adjust their height to fit the short people behind them.

After the concert, the conductor had us stay in position, so he could get a group picture. I would almost be willing to bet money that there is no trace of the girl next to me and myself. The concert went over well, but maybe next time, if people don't come to dress rehearsal, we should keep them out of the concert.
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