by Richard
I think I might have made a mistake. I know. Hardly surprising, but I really had such good intentions with this one. I mean, what could go wrong by bringing three little dudes, aged 10 to 16, to a bar for a concert on a school night? See? Perfectly innocuous, right? Right?
It began, as do so many strange adventures, with Zippy the Monkey Boy having an idea. This time it didn’t involve explosions, grand theft auto (the charge, not the game) or slimy ocean creatures so I was pretty open to hearing about it. He wanted to go see a concert. See, last year around St. Patrick’s Day, Zippy the Monkey Boy and I discovered a new (to us) band called Cage the Elephant. They had this great song on the AltNation channel on XM radio. We loved it. Eventually we (read I) bought the CD and spread the love to the rest of the dudes and little dudes in the house.
A dude at Zippy’s school had said he had tickets for Cage the Elephant’s show here in Charlotte. Zippy, of course, was insanely jealous and wanted to go to the show. I said I’d think about it and promptly forgot about it (parental privilege). About the thirteenth time Zippy brought it back up I caved and looked into the concert. I thought it was being held on a Saturday (actually a Sunday) at a concert venue (actually a bar) so I said why not and bought four tickets, one each for George of the Jungle, Speed Racer, Zippy and for me. I haven’t told my wife, known to me as She Who– Quick! Hide. She’s Coming, about this yet. I might need bandages.
Now, we’ve done concerts before, most notably Jimmy Buffett. But that one was significantly family friendly. I’ve got a feeling this alt-rock concert held at a bar will be, um, different, to say the least. Mind-numbingly, taboo-shatteringly almost-riotously different, to say close to the most.
Should I survive both the concert and the wifely aftermath, I’ll let you know how it went.
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