By tomorrow, Alyssa from D.C. will be nothing but a footnote in pop culture history; even now she’s already just a few sentences in articles about last night’s U2 concert, which featured a performance by Paul Simon. But before we forget her completely, let’s discuss the woman who pissed off thousands of die-hard Bono fans.
The Associated Press reports that the concert, which took place at Madison Square Garden, was a special one for the band. Besides Simon, who joined the band for a few minutes, and Laurie Andersen (who was in the audience), Bono had a few very special guests of his own in the audience: the firefighters who came to his aid after he crashed his bike in Central Park last year, and the woman who saw it happen and called for help.
Everything was going really well until Bono called the woman, whose name it doesn’t appear he knew in the first place, called the woman up to recount the story to the audience:
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