Drew is Good, But Sleep Is Better
Jeff, Drew, Justin, and Pouts-a-lot. Cute, But not enough to sleep outside.
Here is a small, slightly amusing story for you guys. Sarah and I got tickets to
the 98* concert in October today. We ended up with floor seats in the first section,
which is not bad at all, but it wasn't an easy process. We had good intentions
to play the part of "good boyband fan" and camp out for tickets. The plan
was to head out around 11 or 12 and get a good spot out front. This was
until we heard at four thirty that girls had ALREADY started to sit out.
So our options were this:
~ Go Out then, forget the nap and dinner that we had planned, and sit
with 13+ teenyboppers for 15 hours.
~ Be normal human beings until 11, THEN go out
We opted for the second one. I couldn't see myself sitting out there with them
for THAT long. So about eleven, I got home with some dinner for us and started
gathering up the stuff we could take. Sarah was napping in her pajamas, and
I woke her up and she came downstairs to eat, and she said "I was in my
pajamas...maybe we should just stay home." So we thought about it, and figured
if there are already 35 people or so in line. If it's first come, first serve
at the civic area, then we would be the 35 people to get tickets. This would
put us back half way. If we got up and went to Ticketmaster and did the
lotto, we could still get the same seats, but we would also have a small
chance to get at the front of the line. Plus, with Ticketmaster, we could
stay home and sleep in our beds, and not like homeless people on the streets.
So that's what we did. Stayed home. But before after going out at 12 to find
drive by and see what they were all doing. They were playing in the fountain
and holding up signs the said "honk if you love 98*". It was at that moment that
we decided that no matter how much we love a group, it will NEVER be worth
staying up all night. To us, those kind of things are just not worth it. The chances
are so slim at getting good tickets no matter where you go, and after all,
they are just guys. They Sing, They Dance, and they are good looking. But
worth wasting 15 hours sitting on the street? I don't think so. Maybe our
priorities are different. I don't know how many other *NSYNC or boyband
fans feel the same way, but if we all would cool down a little bit
with the ticket thing, we all wouldn't have to waste our time like this.
But there is a happy ending to the story. After all that agrivation, we ended up
getting seats on the floor, in the first section, last row. Not too shabby. And
we got to sleep in our own beds. See?
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