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Yesterday you read about the shoplifter that kicked off another holiday weekend in grand old Erie PA, well today is a story to finish off the weekend.

Since the reason for all of us to be in Erie was to celebrate Easter we went to 11:30am mass at the local church. Amazingly we arrived early and found a seat in the back just before the balcony was opened and the sides became over crowded. We were roughly 4 rows from the back when 2 rows in front of us there was half of a pew with open seats and couldn’t figure out why. That was about to change.

An elderly couple came to sit down when this woman with crazy bitch hair lashed out “SEATS ARE TAKEN!!!”. You know the hair I mean. It’s not bed head or sex head but that bad teased 80s’s poof thing that you’d see today at a Dokken or Poison concert doing beer bongs out of used oil funnels. Lushie and I were at first shocked and then found it humorous as she did this to EVERYONE. It got to the point where she had her grade school aged son sit at the end to tell people that the seats were taken. This kinda insanity would never have happen when my dad was alive and the usher. He would have put the smackdown on this right away. Those ushers were a well oiled machine under his watch. This lady obviously had control of the situation.

10 minutes later her 2 younger daughters finally appeared after having been in the bathroom (everyone for 6 pews heard about it). Before they could enter the mom grabbed the son by the collar of his coat/neck/arm and yelled “GET OVER HERE!!!”. Then in one swoop picked the kid up and had him airborne next to her. Have you played Mortal Kombat when Scorpion says “GET OVER HERE!”? That’s what she sounded like.

For the rest of the mass this lady and her kids were fidgeting, talkin and showing off their French manicures. Thankfully mass was only 45 minutes long so we didn’t have to put up with this behavior very long. I did have to laugh, once mass ended they rushed to be the first ones out of church. Just like those people who leave events early to “beat the traffic”. All of us in the pews turned to each other and let out a chuckle. This is why I miss Erie. You can’t buy entertainment like this in Pittsburgh.

On a side note I did get to drive to Presque Isle and see Lake Erie frozen all of the way to Canada. If you get the chance to do so before it melts I suggest it. Wish I had my camera with me to capture some amazing shots but I’m sure there’s some on Flickr. Erie is only 2 hours max from Pittsburgh so all of you yinzers should make a day trip and head north.