<p>Friday night, H & I were going to go out to hear music- H bailed at the last minute- but he gave me a ride ( it was to a club in our neighborhood)
But * honey*, three bands and the headliner wasn’t even on at 11:30 when I decided to call it a night?
Who stays up so late? I was not the only one yawning at 9:30.</p>
<p>What were the bands?</p>
<p>EK, you’re not that old. Other people are nuts. </p>
<p>All of them.</p>
<p>^^^lol. I have not seen the end of most movies that come on at 9:00pm. It’s a running joke around here.</p>
<p>EK- I can’t stay up late anymore, either. I don’t blame it on being older, rather my 5:50AM wake up time!</p>
<p>DVR,DVR,DVR!</p>
<p>Now I CAN see the end of movies, Yankee games, etc at a much more realistic time
of day, say, about 4pm when I’m home from work.
Our DVR has been life changing. Programming on MY schedule, not theirs.
AND fast forward through commericials. </p>
<p>H and I love watching Jeopardy together. We DVR it (he hates when I call it ‘taping’) at a 7pm time slot automatically each day.
Then we can watch it together at 4pm, when I’m done with work and he is just about leaving for work. FF through commercials gets a Jeopardy down to about 18 minutes!
It is true old married couple bonding at its best.
So, how old are we?</p>
<p>I’m going to my first concert tonight in 25 years. I hope I don’t fall asleep.</p>
<p>Last weekend a guy took me dancing. The night club opened at 9. Dancing started around 10. I got home at 3am. I got to drive my daughter to the barn at 7am. That night a different guy took me to a comedy club that, you guessed it, started at 9. I’m using coffee drinks for my two drink minimum. Apparently, this is why you date young. It took me until Wednesday to recover from my weekend.</p>
<p>I’m using coffee drinks for my two drink minimum. Apparently, this is why you date young</p>
<p>I’m there with you.
I ordered an Irish Coffee, hold the whipped cream, then I had another, hold the Irish. ;)</p>
<p>Lindsay Fuller and the Cheap Dates opened ( it was a CD release party for Kristen Ward)
I didn’t make it till Kristen’s set, ( 
) but I was **thrilled to see Jeff Fielder on guitar.
( & Mike Musburger on drums Posies, Fastbacks)</p>
<p>I went to watch my S’s band play at a small venue last week and couldn’t get through it without earplugs. So, don’t feel bad, emeraldkitty!</p>
<p>I knew I was getting old when I had to fill in an online form that asked for year of birth, and when a pop down menu popped up to click on the appropriate year, I had to scroll down, down, down, down, down…</p>
<p>Don’t go to Barcelona. DS is there for a semester. Those people don’t eat dinner until 9pm. The cafeteria in his dorm doesn’t even open for dinner until 8:30 pm. We went to visit him, H made a reservation at 9pm when a restaurant opened. We were the ONLY people in the restaurant until we were eating dessert at 10pm. When we left at 10:30 the place was hopping. This was not a nightclub, it was a regular RESTAURANT.</p>
<p>The normal workday in Barcelona starts around 8 or 9 am, then a lot of companies have “siesta” or a long lunch from 1 - 3, then people work until around 7pm. I swear, I don’t know when these people sleep. They also eat very small breakfasts and lunches, I don’t know how they make it until 9pm for dinner.</p>
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<p>There’s not much chance of that happening, you don’t say. Music is so loud at concerts these days, it would be impossible to fall asleep, even at our age!</p>
<p>Went to see Bruce Springsteen two summers ago. Heading into the concert, we walked past lots of tailgaters… they were all talking about their 401k’s. During the concert, Bruce ventured onto small extensions of the stage that stuck out into the audience. The lucky front-row fans would look up adoringly and reach their hands out to get high fives and hand-slaps from The Boss. They showed this on the big screen… and all the fans were bald guys with glasses. Looked like an accountants convention. I turned to DH and said, “We’re OLD.” </p>
<p>Last summer, Elton John & Billy Joel. More of the same…</p>
<p>Well, I’ll fit right in, lafalum. I’m seeing Sir Elton tonight.</p>
<p>We went to a concert on Monday, we knew two bands were playing before the one we wanted to hear, but no they gave us THREE. The result was that our band didn’t even start till 9 pm. Ugh! Not an old crowd - this was for our son - Finnish metal - mosh pits, crowd surfing the works. Though this venue was nice because us oldies got seats. Some places only have standing.</p>
<p>That was my problem last night- I was standing & most of the time I did have something to lean against, but then when I tried to learn dance steps at 10 am this morning for a glee flash mob- my back complained. Pretty loudly.</p>
<p>So tired.</p>
<p>I opened this thread with great trepidation. Obviously I’m old. I went to see REM last year and they had two opening acts, and I was like, “WHAT??? Who has time for this?” at which point I realized I’d gotten quite old because I used to have time for very little else…:D</p>
<p>DH and DS went to see Jimmie Vaughan at a smallish club recently. The only seating was for “the old guys” against one back wall. H (54) refused to sit. S and H stood the entire time - I think there were two bands before the 2 hour main event.</p>
<p>DH needed a full day of recovery.</p>
<p>But I’m the old one. I stayed home and watched TV.</p>
<p>Okay, I just read the post above mine from EmeraldKitty in which she blithely states she was at a glee flashmob this morning and I have decided she is not nearly as old as I am. A flashmob cannot be attended the day after a concert by one who is, in fact, old. It’s a law of physics. ;)</p>