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One day.... You were bored.
Okay....
So maybe it wasn't just one day.
It was one day too many....
The final caper....
or meal...
Well straw, really.
What a perfect time to get concert tickets to alleviate your mood
[[The G-Locks Mattresses]] happen to be opening for a slightly more popular band that you've heard of before; however, you haven't found the time to listen to them yet.
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You immedietly go to the ticketing website, and the pesky little person does their long arduous walk accross the computer screen. Supposedly, that's so the ticket website can check availability but really it's like that 404 dinosaur game, just the way that the website tries to keep you from being angry.
Thankfully after that fitful 5 minutes, the tickets were easily secureable, even after you had to send yourself the ''reset your password'' link an embarissingly high amount of times "It's because the email won't download from the server", You tried to tell yourself.
The point is ''ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED: CONCERT TICKETS ARE STORED ON YOUR PHONE!''
How do you spend the days leading up to the concert?
[[Familiarize Your Self With Who The Headlining Band Is]]
[[Go About Your Daily Life]]Luckily for you, the internet is an asset. The Auburn is your standard “has been in the scene for ages” band with a frontman, a bassist, 2 guitarists and a drummer, along with 7 full albums that there was no way you could listen to and memorize in time for the tour.
That large discography isn’t enough to stop you though. Your first attempt of starting with The Auburn's current album You Are Doing Great and listening to each album once working through their entire discography backwards, you ended up losing focus 4 albums in and mushing them all together.
After analyzing the options, you settled on shuffling their entire discography with emphasis on their top tracks in the days leading up to the event.
[[Arrive at the venue]] A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there. A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there.A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there.A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there.A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there. The weeks just drone on and on and on. A bit of school work here, A bit of classes there. Everything becomes a monotonous blur.
[[Calendar notification]]After who knows how long of the combination of in the line that wrapped around the venue and going through security, you finally made it inside The Stand.
The black and white checkered floor tiles seemed to yell at you and the walls were an interesting mix of red and columns that were nearly invisible due to the collage of stickers of previous bands that played there, along with a few signed guitars.
There's even a neon sign with “THE STAND” written next to a glass full of music notes with a straw sticking out of it, and a slice of lemon holding on for dear life. “They really thought of everything” you thought to yourself.
What now?
[[Visit the Merch Booths]]
[[Advance towards the stage]]Yes, merch booths, as in you are breaking your personal rule of getting one piece of merch at a show. Normally this is a personal rule as the cost of merch plus the cost of concert tickets is a pricey endeavor when combined. However, after working past the merch booths of both bands, there were too many shirts for both artists that you adored.
Is it impractical to purchase multiple shirts, if you weren’t going to immediately put one of them on or had no bag to put them in? Welp you were about to find out because that is not something that went through your head until after both purchases were made.
Tying at least one shirt around your waist seemed like a possible option.
[[Advance towards the stage]]Walking towards the door’s that held the room with the stage, you dramatically flung the doors open in time with the song that was currently playing on the pre show playlist. Sort of a non-starter, everyone already in the room was either on their phones or bobbing their heads to the pre show playlist, but at least you were entertained.
Also no one caring about a dramatic door slam can allow for “the dancing without caring who's watching” philosophy to take effect later.
You easily weave through the crowd, and manage to find a place close to the bass player's side of the stage.
And now you wait. Might as well dance to the pre show playlist, and sink your teeth into the experience early knowing that you plan to commit yourself to having a good time the full length of the concert.
[[G-Locks Mattresses Walk Onstage]] Double-click this passage to edit it.G-LOCKS MATTRESSES CONCERT 7:00 pm
91 Lemonade Lane 11:30 pm
Appears on your phone screen 5 hours before it’s relevant.
Suddenly there was something to do.
Realizing that the doors were supposed to open at 6:30, the plan was to get to the venue early so you’d be closer to the front of the line.
[[Get to Venue Early]]That was the intent anyway. You specifically had one piece of fried food and a full bottle of dehydrating soda,with the intention of it being a quick meal, in preparation for an event where you are meant to jump around and plausibly mosh in a crowd for hours on end. Great planning…
The public transit also decided to have your awful planning and get delayed by 30 minutes. So even though you left the house at a reasonable time, it wasn’t your fault that you arrived at the venue, you had to complete the pain of “the walk of shame to the end of the line” past all of the people who got there earlier. Snaking around 3 corners and walking past well over 30 people, you sank to the cold concrete knowing that this was going to be a while.
[[20 minutes later...]]Finishing the episode of your podcast and wishing you could see the face of one of the people as they realized in horror what they were going to have to talk about with a small kid in the front row. As much as you liked them, that sounds hilarious.
After that, you managed to make a couple friends in the line (and ultimately losing them after the line started moving based on the way it ended up being organized) talking about the game of heads up people were playing behind us, favorite songs. The trivia knowledge of G-Locks Mattresses finally came in handy
[[Make Your Way Inside]]Successful metal detector scan and no lost tickets. !!! WHOOO
*hacker voice* you made it.
Okay so now what do you do?
[[Explore, you have a bit of time]]
[[Try to find the restroom]]
[[Don’t Risk ANYTHING, get a spot]]Welcome to the main lobby, the black and white checkered floor tiles seemed to yell at you. The walls were an interesting mix of red and columns that were nearly invisible due to the collage of stickers of previous bands that played there, along with a few signed guitars.
Walking around you eventually walk towards a neon sign. “Of course a venue on Lemonade Lane would be called The Stand…. I would love to meet the committee of dad joke aficionados they got to name this place,” you chuckled to yourself. The sign in question had the words “THE STAND” next to a glass full of music notes with a straw sticking out of it, and a slice of lemon holding on for dear life.
[[Try to find the restroom]]
[[Find a spot]]Knowing you probably weren't going to make the effort to use the restroom between sets, this is quite possibly the most logical idea you’ve come up with for an extremely long while.
Luckily for you in two regards. First you didn’t have to use the restroom too badly at this stage, you went before you left, but a habit is a habit.
Secondly, it didn’t take too long to find, it was pretty much a walk in a straight line scenario. Past the bar on your left side, past the theatre doors on your right, past the merch booth on your right. And boom.
Now What?
[[Explore, you have a bit of time]]
[[Find a spot]]Just because you forgot the concert was happening, doesn’t mean that you don’t want to get close enough to the stage, so you could actually see what was happening. Unfortunately there is a weird balance of wanting to see and not wanting to block the view of other people who could be more excited than you.
And that’s how you ended up 7-13 rows back, on your usual “the side of the stage where the bassist normally stands because basses are cool and one infographic deemed it the place where lonely people normally stand” spot.
But you weren’t here for people. You were here for music and the vague illusion of companionship by being surrounded by people (there is clearly a difference).
[[The pre-show playlist stops]][[Leave Early-New Things Are Scary]]
[[Try to experiment musically]]
[[Leave Early-New Things Are Scary]]
[[Paid for the tickets, Might as well stay]]
You did what you came to do and so you left. Simple as that. Somehow it’s already dark out and now you have to get home alone. “It’s fine… everything is going to be fine. Absolutely fine. Nothing will go wrong” you verbally repeated as you took public transit home alone. Nothing happened and you made it home perfectly safe, yet the fear something could of happened still flooded your mind.
Maybe one day you’ll listen to The Auburn, or maybe not. For now the cat is still alive and dead, who knows when or if that box will ever be opened.
Try again?[[So You Got Live Concert tickets]][[wow that was fun]][[wow that was fun]]
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