This all happened few years back, but I was too afraid to say anything. With the recent accusations of Chris H. of "Arcade Fire Stole My Basketball" I decided it was time for me to gather up the courage to go public with my story.
It was June of 2004, I was living in the Rochester area at the time and had heard buzz surrounding both The Unicorns and The Arcade Fire, so I decided to go to the show. I had a few hours to kill before the doors to the show opened so I headed over to the local Italian American Rec Center. I pulled out my favorite bocce set and a tall man approached me. He kindly asked if him and his friends could join me in a game of bocce.
How could I refuse? He had asked so nicely, plus there was way more of them than me so if they had really wanted to they could have bullied my bocce set away from me.
The game went quite well, except the guy with the glasses was amazing at bocce. Luckily he was on my team.
I looked at my watch and realized the doors would be opening soon, so I scurried off to the concert hall. In my haste I left my bocce set behind.
Later that night I was shocked to see the same people that were playing bocce with me up on stage. I screamed at the top of my lungs for them to return my bocce set, but it was no good. Everytime I yelled someone either started playing a xylophone or smacking someone else in the head with a drumstick.
I tried to stick around after the show to pick up my bocce set, but it was no good. The band decided to only stick around briefly. I think they knew that I was going to confront them about my bocce set.
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