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Post by missalabama on Mar 22, 2009 17:32:09 GMT -5
I have Charlie Brown's luck when it comes to concerts. Something crazy always happens. My car was towed at Dave Matthews, I broke my foot just before U2, I missed my flight to the first time I tried to see Blunty, and so on. I was surprised that Blunty at the O2 was going rather well, except for getting the heel of my new, Alexander McQueen, Union Jack boots caught in the escalator of the tube, dropping my camera flash in the middle of the O2 entryway and me crawling on my hands and knees trying to catch batteries that were rolling everywhere... Leave it to me to gum up the works of everyone trying to get into the stadium! Not too bad, right? The fiasco was a post-concert one though. It came about a month after the concert in the form of my iPhone bill and $2300 of internet charges. My Dad's comment on the story was, "What the hell were you doing on the internet that would cost that much?" I said nothing but he didn't believe me... I don't know why. I finally said that I did google only one thing the whole week I was in London. He said, "What in the world was it?" I confessed that on the Tube after the concert, I googled some English Musician named John Garrison. I thought Dad was going to yell at me, but he just laughed and said, "What are you, a 12-year-old girl?" I said, "Yes, trapped in a 30-something body." He asked me if it was worth it and I said, "As a music junkie, I always love finding new musicians, but if I were going to spend $2300 on one thing in London, it would not have been John Garrison. It would have been a dress that I saw in the window of Stella McCartney."
In the end, The problem was that I had not told AT&T not to put my phone on international roaming while I was in London. It took my Dad's lawyer and 6 months of negotiation with AT&T to get the matter resolved.
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Post by kerpea30 on Mar 22, 2009 19:55:56 GMT -5
OMG that is freaking hilarious!!! ;D
That would totally be something that would happen to me! I am the only person in the world that would step in the only hole within 50 miles on the beach in Mexico and twist my ankle so bad I couldn't even put a flip flop on because my foot swelled to three times it's size...so I can deffo relate! My husband always teases he needs to take out more life insurance on me...LOL!!!!
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Post by gray on Mar 23, 2009 5:50:58 GMT -5
Oh dear, that's a lot of money...
Sorry to hear about all the problems comign up when you try to attend a gig - knowing this, I shouldn't moan about when something goes wrong for me.
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Post by missalabama on Apr 21, 2009 10:47:46 GMT -5
Kerpea, I think I need some concert insurance... I must have done something to anger the Rock Gods because I missed another concert last night. I was going to see Dave Matthews but it was truly a ticket mix-up DISASTER from HELL! After I drove 6 hours for a long weekend of seeing old friends, family and Dave, it turned out that she didn't have a ticket for me after all because her other friend who bought the tickets had another friend who wanted to go... The irony was that the week before, I asked her if she had the tickets or if I needed to buy one, and she said that she had them. I decided to go anyway, thinking I could buy one at the gate... I didn't realize until at the amphitheater that I had forgotten my purse, I had no money, check card, driver's license or any form of ID and no one had any cash for a ticket... The scalpers were insane! I was ok with missing it because I have seen DMB a lot but my "friend" just texted me this morning to say that I didn't miss anything and he only played new stuff. I guess she was trying to make me feel better but she obviously doesn't know me at all because that made it even worse. They have a new album coming out and I would have loved to have heard the new tunes live. Agenda for today: Get Better friends!
By the way, Kerpea, I'm still ROFL @ your hole on the beach story. That would totally be something that would happen to me! I once tore the ligaments in my ankle by stepping off of a curb into a storm drain... How I did ballet for 15 years, I don't know. That's the irony... pirouettes are no problem but it's escalators and curbs I have issues with.
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Post by kerpea30 on Apr 21, 2009 12:48:34 GMT -5
Oh...I have a serious issue with curbs...a few months ago I was walking out of a club talking to my girlfriends and...BAM...I didn't see the curb and hit the street on my knees...ripped a hole in a pair of 7's jeans and scrapped my knee pretty good! I always tell my friends that I will provide them with some great entertainment at NO COST and it could come at ANY TIME ;D I think God just sits up there and has a good laugh at me!  |
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