Ever felt like someone REALLY wished you didn't exist?

I certainly did tonight, but it was funny as fuck.

I attended a local wrestling show tonight called Real Deal Wrestling. There were a random selection of random wrestlers, faces and heels (although clearly jobber material) who had various flawed, yet faithful gimmicks to carry their characters along. The room was packed with excited, John Cena fueled kids and their unwitting parents. The ring was battered and smudged with the sweat of a summer full of wrestling events at the same, small-time venue. The bar was open and the alcoholic drinks were constantly pouring. Good times.

Enter me and my friends. The four of us (well, five, but one of our troupe doesn't make an effort to speak) strolled in, just under twenty years old, reminiscing the Attitude era WWF, looking for some booze and some baseline wrestling. Just something to muse at for £5 for a couple of hours. We did have fun all the time and we acted like a wrestling fan should. Shame I don't think they quite had us in mind for the show.

You see, we know all kinds of jargon like keyfabe, how match rules work, what good selling looks like, who's being stiff, common sense, you know, that kind of thing. I found myself watching a tag team match where the heel team were attacking one of the faces less than a meter away from the referee inside the ring, who was apparently too busy keeping the other face out of the ring to notice the mat making a tremendous racket, nor the floor bouncing beneath his feet. I shouted (to the referee) "Where's your ears!?"; the heel outside the ring told me to shut up. It sounds like he was just being in character, but it was different if you were actually there.

We didn't get distasteful (see: "Where's the Bible?"), but it was clear that our superior wrestling knowledge was annoying parents and wrestlers alike. I do feel bad about it, but to place it in perspective, imagine their argument summed up in one sentence. "How dare you chant and partake as an active spectator at a WRESTLING event!"