I'm OLD.
I always knew I was an 80-year-old trapped in a 30-year-old's body but it's just gotten to be too much.
I dislike staying out until late on 'school nights' as I call them (aka during the work week). I get up at 5:30 every morning, have an hour commute, work 8+ hours and turn around for another hour commute. I love my job. I love that I am using public transportation to get to my job...but the days are long. That's why I am typically in bed by no later than 10pm.
And concerts start LATE.
The doors may be opening at 8pm but the main act won't go on until at least 11pm, which is past my bedtime - especially on a school night. Then I think about the concert goers which are typically college-aged kids just taking their training wheels off of their drinking bike and riding full force down a steep hill crashing into garbage cans, people and animals along the way.
Most concerts I have been to in the past 2 years have featured drunk kids doing stupid things; throwing up into a garbage can next to me, passing out ON the dance floor, getting into fights, making out...just drunky kid things. And here I am, realizing -- this is why we don't see many older people at concerts!
I am one of those older people now and I am ok with that. You might see me at First Ave every once in a while for that amazing show but if I know most of my night will be spent pushing drunk girls in Uggs out of my way, getting felt up by college guys, stepping over puke piles in the bathroom - I might reconsider.
You will probably find me paying way too much money to sit down in a chair, in an auditorium for a concert that ends by 11pm. But I won't have to deal with stepping over drunk passed out girls in the bathroom and because of that, I am ok with staying out past my bedtime.
