vldazzle… where I live the whole town goes to HS sports. Mostly football, but basketball also.
And they all have used various seat-saving techniques over the years… Blankets duct-taped to the bleachers are popular for football games, coats and masking tape for events in the auditorium, like the prom grand march coming up in a few weeks!
One of the few stories my father told me from WW 2 in Germany: Late in the war, going past a bombed house. A man came to them saying “Your bombs killed my wife!” My Dad told him “If you hadn’t said ‘Heil Hitler’ none of this would have happened”.
The ACLU is mellow? Or mellow-inducing? I am so mellow that I don’t understand that, but it doesn’t bother me.